Specials

We’ve all been to restaurants where there are menu entries known as “Specials”. Things such as “Soup of the Day” or “ Vegetables in Season”. You ask your waitstaff what these are and hopefully they know and give you an accurate description.

There is variability from day to day in what is truly on at least part of the menu. It’s open to, if you will, the chef’s interpretation and preparation. Now that can be on one extreme or the other from “the chef was at the farm and found these lovely ripe tomatoes” to “we ordered way too many radishes and they are about to go bad so we made radish purée”.

Isn’t that a bit what we get on the “menu” sometimes when we pick and choose to read bits and pieces of Scripture or not read it at all? We don’t have a full view of what Scripture offers us, or we allow others to make the decision about what we are going to believe based on what they have decided is “the Potato of the Night”.

Scripture isn’t just made up as time goes along based on what is available or current or “in season”. It is always fresh.