I had a question in my mind this week, and after some prayer, this parable came into my mind. Hope you enjoy

All of us get to go to work at the bakery. We have various cakes to make. Each of us is given a bit of instruction, more is available if we look. So we start off, trying to make cakes. At first they are abysmal, but gradually they get better. After we make a cake, we send it to the Head Baker, who trims it, frosts it and makes it beautiful.

Whatever we do, no matter how hard we try though, our cakes are never perfect. They always come out a little uneven. But that’s okay, because the  fixes it when He finishes the cake. He can take away the imperfections, fill in gaps, trim away excess, and give it a sweeter flavor with the frosting. Sometimes he even takes a very poorly made cake, throws it out and replaces it with something much better, or asks us to try again.

While making cakes, its easy to look over at a fellow cook and say, “My cake is better than yours,” or “Her cake is better than mine.” Maybe it is. But our own cake is still imperfect. And no matter the state of the cake, the Head Baker takes all of them, fixes it up and makes it beautiful and delicious. We soon realize that comparison is mostly pointless because all our cakes aren’t perfect, but the Head Baker takes our efforts and makes far more out of them than we can.

We share ideas about how to get our cakes better. Sometimes the ideas work well. Sometimes the ideas we share don’t work, because every cake and the way we bake it is a bit different. The Head Baker gives us lots of advice, and that advice is always the best and always works.