God loves barbecue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Think about it—after all, we’re made in His Image, so . . . !
Surely, enjoying barbecue is a blessing from God !<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Doesn’t say if God ever ate any, but He sure delighted in the smell of barbecued beef (and others), particularly sacrificed from the heart of one right with God.
‘Incidentally’, vegetarian sacrifices were included, but never sufficient for dealing with sin—God required shedding blood from the beginning, and it pleased Him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Lots of Bible verses on this, making God happy (look up “sweet smelling sacrifice”).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“The Lord smelled the pleasing aroma (of Noah’s sacrifice after the flood) and said, ‘Never again will I destroy all living creatures as I have done.’ ” *<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Since Jesus told the following story to give the New Testament completion of getting right with God, I find it hard to believe He would have refused good barbecue while He was here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Prodigal Son— (also, THE PIGPEN, on this site) – – – * On a different note than this article, the next verse after the one above, puts to rest any fear of catastrophic climate change: God loves barbecue. Think about it—after all, we’re made in His Image, so . . . !Surely, enjoying barbecue is a blessing from God ! Doesn’t say if God ever ate any, but He sure delighted in the smell of barbecued beef (and others), particularly sacrificed from the heart of one right with God.‘Incidentally’, vegetarian […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,2,14,7,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-educational","category-faith_based","category-health","category-inspire_lifter","category-political-cultural"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7473"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7473"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7473\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7489,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7473\/revisions\/7489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
One of my favorites, for lots of personal reasons, including this:
Jesus made up the story, and intentionally included the extravagant feast with barbecued beef from the<\/span> calf that was fattened especially for this (long anticipated by the father).
So, our return to Our Father creates joy in heaven that warrants barbecue of a fattened calf.
I LOVE IT ! ! !<\/p>\n\n\n\n
– – –
In the book, DADDY SAID, I relate a personal experience growing up and enjoying<\/span> the fatted calf ! ! !<\/p>\n\n\n\n
– – –<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“While the earth remains, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, winter and summer, and day and night shall not cease.\u201d
God and His Word had the first word “In the beginning”—and always will.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"