Beth was holding a can of whipped cream over some strawberry shortcake. She pressed the valve on the top this way and that, but no cream would come out. Then Gail tried — nothing happened.
Dad had invited an important businessman for dinner and Mom was away, so Beth and Gail had prepared the meal. So far things had gone well. But now ... “We’ve got to get this stuff out of here,” said Beth. “You can’t serve strawberry shortcake without whipped cream!”
“I know!” Gail agreed. Time was passing as they shook the can and tried everything they could think of. Then Gail saw around the base of the can, printed in large letters, the instructions, “DO NOT PUNCTURE OR INCINERATE THIS CAN.” “It says not to puncture this can, but what else can we do? I know there’s whipped cream in there, and we have to get it out, now!”
She hunted through the kitchen drawer and found a can opener with a pointed end. As they both leaned over the can, Gail poked a hole in it.
A moment later they looked at each other in amazement! Their faces, hair, arms and clothes were covered with whipped cream. Some of it had shot past them and landed on the wall behind them and even on the ceiling. “Well, at least it’s out of the can,” Gail giggled.
“Now what do we do?” Beth mumbled through her coating of whipped cream.
“Well, we’ve got to get some of it on that shortcake.”
“I know that.”
“Stand still!” Beth obediently stood still as Gail scraped the whipped cream from her face and arms onto the dessert. Then Beth scraped whipped cream off of Gail. The shortcake looked pretty good.
“Now we’ve got to make you look presentable,” Gail told Beth and they began removing the whipped cream from Beth’s hair and clothes as quickly as they could. Finally, Beth put on an apron and carried the dessert into the dining room.
“What took you so long?” asked Dad.
“Oh, we just couldn’t seem to get the whipped cream out of the can,” Beth said.
Whipped cream all over you isn’t really a big problem. But God gives us instructions that we need to follow if we don’t want to have truly big problems. Can you think of any? The most important one of all is, “Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and [you will] be saved” (Acts 16:3131And they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house. (Acts 16:31)). How simple that sounds! Have you done it? It will keep you from going to hell if you obey it.
Messages of God’s Love 12/29//2024