The other day I made Crock Pot Lasagna for dinner.  As I was cooking I began thinking about posting my dinner menu on Facebook.  When I post something special I am cooking, oftentimes it gets a big reaction and a lot of comments. What would happen if I posted cereal with milk or PB&J?  Would I get the same reaction?

God’s Word is sometimes like this with us as human beings.  The Bible is a collection of stories or accounts of the Jewish people and others involved with them.  There are many amazing things that happened to and for the people in The Bible.  Consider when Joshua and his army marched around Jericho and the Wall fell down or when Gideon defeated the Midianites with only 300 men?  How about when Peter was on the rooftop and he experienced the heavenly vision from the Lord?  Or when the disciples were in a locked room and Jesus appeared to them after His resurrection?  Consider when John was on the isle of Patmos and the Lord delivered the book of Revelation to him!  These were all amazing, out of the ordinary days in the lives of a just a few honored and Godly men in the Bible.

Now, think about all their other days.  If they lived to be almost a hundred years old, which John the apostle did, how many days did they have like this?  Was God absent from their life during this time?  Did He go away only to return for the spectacular event? No, He did not.  In Hebrews 13:5 He promises never to leave us or forsake us.  He is always with us.  Even on those less than spectacular days when you moms are covered in baby boogers, still in your pajamas, with your teeth not brushed, He is still there, helping us more than we know.

So what do we do on those not-so-spectacular days when nothing quite as amazing as the parting of the Red Sea is taking place?  We do His Word.  Still.   We read it, think about it, and act on it.  We practice it.  We practice 1 Corinthians 13 that says, “Love is patient.  Love is kind.”  When your child is climbing on the cabinets for the 956^th time, we are patient and kind.

We “offer the sacrifice of praise to God continually, that is, the fruit of our lips, giving thanksgiving to His name. (Hebrews 13:15)” When your husband is late from work and will miss dinner, thank God anyway because you have a husband on his way home.  If you are currently going through a deployment, you can thank God for the opportunity as a military family to serve the nation.

God is faithful to us even when we cannot see Him amazingly in action and nothing quite spectacular is going on.  He is watching over His Word to perform it. (Isaiah 55:11)  If you act on God’s Word you will most assuredly grow in your faith today.  (See James 1 and Isaiah 55 for further study.)

Crock Pot Lasagna

1 1/2 pound ground beef

1 onion chopped

2 garlic cloves, minced

1 can tomato sauce

1 can fire roasted tomatoes

1 cup water

1 tsp. salt

1 tsp dried oregano

1 pkg.  (8 oz.) no-cook lasagna noodles

4 cups mozzarella

2 cups combination of your choice of cheeses, cottage cheese, shredded parmesan, and/or ricotta

In a skillet cook ground beef, onion, and garlic until meat is browned.  Drain grease.  Add the tomato sauce, tomatoes, salt and oregano to the cooked ground beef; mix well.  Spread a fourth of meat mixture in the bottom of your crock pot.  Arrange 3 lasagna noodles over sauce.  You might have to break them to fit properly.  No worries, they will cook with the meat and cheese and you won’t notice.  Combine the cheeses; spoon a third of the mixture over the noodles.  Repeat layers twice.  Top with any remaining meat sauce mixture.  Cook in the crock pot on low for about 5 hours.   Enjoy!!!!!

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