Fudge and Popcorn

This time of year brings back childhood memories of fudge and hot buttery popcorn, snow outside and wood burning in the fireplace.  What’s important about this fudge is that it was made by my mother's hand.  This fudge isn’t the kind with marshmallow crème and chocolate chips that you melt in the microwave. It’s made with corn syrup and sugar and real butter and you have to heat it just right using a candy thermometer, then you have to beat it by hand until it’s the exactly right consistency.  When you eat it, the fudge melts in your mouth.  The popcorn is different as well.  It was perfectly  popped on the stove from hard kernels and after it’s done, mother would pour melted butter (real butter) over the popcorn. Yum!

I think what I remember most is watching mother make the fudge and the popcorn.  I remember the anticipation.  I remember being so excited I could hardly wait for the fudge to set up.  I would look at the fudge in the pan surrounded by a thin coating of hot butter and I thought about what it tastes like.  We couldn’t eat the fudge until it cooled down, and sometimes I wondered if it would EVER be ready to eat! 

Looking back I think the waiting made the fudge taste even sweeter and the hot popcorn taste even more scrumptious.  While I waited I thought about how good the fudge would taste and I remembered the butter and salt on the popcorn.  The longer I waited the more I thought about what it would taste like. 

Of one thing I was certain, I knew the wait would be worth it.

Really worth it. 

The Old Testament prophets prayed and waited and they believed their wait  would not be in vain.  Even though they did not see the Messiah in their lifetime, they knew He would come and that it would be worth the wait.  

 

 

Habakkuk 2:3  (NLT) says,
 This vision is for a future time.
      It describes the end, and it will be fulfilled.
   If it seems slow in coming, wait patiently,
      for it will surely take place.
      It will not be delayed.

The Hebrew word used here for wait is: חכה  châkâh and it is akin to a piercing, meaning to adhere to or await. 

There is something IN the waiting that pierces our hearts.  The prophets foretold a promise that was sure and true.  The secret is in the waiting.  

During this season, trust and wait for the sweet presence of Jesus.

It’s worth the wait.

Really worth it. 

Ask God to pierce your heart through the waiting...