Follow the Recipe

This weekend I was making cookies for my 2-3rd grade Sunday School class. The recipe called for 2 1/2 cups of flour. I was using the 1/2 measuring cup so I wouldn't have more to clean up. I thought I had put in the full 2 1/2 cups of flour, but when the buzzer sounded and I looked at my "cookies" I realized that something was wrong. The cookies weren't cookies, they were puddled pancakes of gargantuan size. Yes, something was indeed wrong. That's when I realized that I failed to put the full amount of flour in the dough. So I added more flour and the next batch came out, still a little frazzled by the horrific events, but the nonetheless edible and more cookie like.
That's when I realized just how important it is to follow the recipe. If your anything like me, if you don't follow the recipe your cookies will end up... well just not the way a cookie should be. Even just straying from the recipe for just a cup can make all the difference between a delicious cookie and a doughy mess.
It reminds me just how much we need direction in life. We need a recipe for life. We have a recipe for life: the bible. The bible gives us the recipe to living a full life. However, many people fail to follow the recipe and instead of ending up with yummy cookie lives, their lives are puddlely, messy cookie-pancake hybrids that don't really look all that appetizing.
So in order to have a life that's fulfilling and delicious, you need to follow the recipe that the bible gives. Otherwise you'll end up with a life that is less than desirable. Following the recipe also makes the cookie look good and more appealing making others will want to follow the recipe.
The recipe is also written by the Master Baker. The one who knows everything there is to know about cookies. He knows what makes a good cookie, what ingredients to use and how to mix and bake so that cookies come out absolutely perfect. So his recipe for cookies (and life) is the best and perfect recipe we could ever follow.
Everybody wants to make good cookies, but you have to follow the recipe and everybody wants to have a good life, but you need to follow the recipe for that as well. The most perfect recipe written by the most amazing Baker in the world. Sounds like a pretty good cookie to me.