Let the Holy Spirit Help.

May 1, 2024

My wife and I attended our daughter’s Culinary Capstone Project in 2011. She was just wrapping up her studies and she, like her classmates had prepared a meal for the professors. Her parents were invited to attend and share in the meal.

The meal was wonderful. I won’t go into all the servings, but I will say she prepared a French meal and did a superb job describing each course to us.

This week’s photo is of the dessert.

I’ve slept a few nights since eating this fine meal and hearing her description, so when I decided to use this picture for my blog I texted my daughter and asked her to remind me what the dessert was called. Our conversation went something like this.

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Me: Can you remind me of some of the details of your dessert for this week’s blog post?

Her: That’s an apple pie-filled profiterole atop a nest of spun sugar.

Me: Profiterole?

Her: Pastry made with pate a choux.

Me: Pate a choux?

Her: A French dough that can be piped and filled to make sweet or savory puffs.

Me: (I generally know what sweet means, but too embarrassed to ask another question, I just googled savory, which happens to mean the opposite of sweet.)

So, putting my memory of the dessert along with her descriptions, in my words, I would say it was a French pastry with sweet apple pie filling on top of spun sugar.

We may feel this way when we read the Bible sometimes. Some Scripture can be confusing and hard to understand. We may have to read the words several times, making sure we know the time, context, setting, and overall intent before fully understanding how to apply it to our lives.

While we might rely on a culinary school graduate to explain French baking, we rely on the Holy Spirit to explain Scripture.

“But the Helper, the Holy Spirit whom the Father will send in My name, He will teach you all things, and remind you of all that I said to you.” (John 14:26, NASB) 

When we are saved, we are filled with the Holy Spirit. He will make sure that we can understand what we need to understand from the Bible. Of course, there may be things that cause us to say, “I don’t understand how that can happen.” That may be because God’s ways are higher than our ways and as Isaiah tells us, “God’s thoughts are not our thoughts, neither are His ways our ways.” The Holy Spirit, living within us, is much closer than a text and is a forever help.