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A Chocolate Message from God

 

I was intrigued today with the speaker at our women’s fellowship meeting, who gave us scriptures based on bars of chocolate. I have done this several times a year over a few years now for our church staff. We are not a large church, but we do employ several staff to take care of the needs of the community, such as the foodbank, transitional housing and so on. Not all of these staff are Christians. So a few years ago, I started, now and then, buying multipacks of small chocolate bars and putting them in a cellophane bag with a scripture or an encouragement of some kind.

For example:

Crunchie bars– ‘when it comes to the crunch, God’s got your back!’

Milky Way –   ‘the God who created the Milky Way loves you and will never abandon

 you.’

Flake Bars     - Scripture from Numbers 6:24-26

Picnic Bars    - ‘Life is no picnic, but God has promised to never leave your or forsake

 you.’

Smarties        - ‘Being smart, or rich or good does not give you eternal life. Only

                           Jesus can do that.’

Twirl               - Scripture from Zephaniah 3:17 followed by inviting them to dance and

                           twirl before the Lord.

Kit Kats          - during this time staff had been working long hours providing clothes, food and help for the many who were badly affected by a cyclone. They were weary and struggling. The message was from Psalm 23 and I invited them to ‘take a break, have a Kit Kat’.

 

At Christmas, I give chocolate hearts with an appropriate Christmas message, and at Easter, I give Easter eggs with an appropriate message.

So if you are a chocolate consumer, as I am, meditate upon scripture as you enjoy!

 

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