“He (an insignificant, no named angel) threw him (satan) into the Abyss, and locked and sealed it over him, to keep him from deceiving the nations anymore until the thousand years were ended. After that, he must be set free for a short time.” Revelation 20:3

I got a BIG Butt…but didn’t really know what to do with it! Being on the frugal side is what got me the butt. I had family coming over and thought it’d be fun to make a meal. Looking at the grocery store ads, I saw ‘pork butts’ were on sale…CHEAP. I was sold and ended up with a big one. The only question I had was… “Now what?”

I MUST confess…in my almost 65 years, I have never cooked a pork butt! Maybe it’s the SLOW thing or maybe it’s that I’m not a huge pork fan. But I was about to learn something new all the same. The first thing I learned was that I had been deceived all those years! It’s NOT a butt…but a shoulder. Butts are hams! Cute! The next thing I learned was that ‘low and slow’ means just that. I ended up pulling and all-nighter!

The big butt had been slow roasting for 6 hours. When I checked, it didn’t look like what I knew it was supposed to. So I put it back into the heat for 2 more hours. After nothing had changed, and being too tired to mess with it, the recipe words, “you can’t over cook a butt” came to mind. So I just closed the oven door and went to bed, choosing to operate by faith!

The Bible verse today is kind of like a BBQ. When Christ returns to set up His 1000 year reign on earth, the times will be unprecedented. Peace, justice and prosperity will be His method as He provides EVERYTHING good for His kingdom. Buttttt…all things will change at the stroke of a 1000 year clock! Can you see why?? Go ahead…read it again and see if you can find it.

We humans don’t truly understand God things very well. When we try, we often end up JUDGING God for things we would NEVER allow…since WE would NEVER let some things exist if WE were in charge. And one of those things lies in the word ‘MUST!’

Satan is a liar, murderer and a deceiver. It is what he does. In human wisdom, we would take him out behind the barn and put a bullet in him! Case closed! Yet God says ‘MUST!’ And only after the shock and horror of that word can one begin to grasp the concept that ‘Choice’ is God’s Gold. His patience, love and desire to give me a chance to choose Him over everything else, operate like the heat of a BBQ…’low & slow.’ Because to get to a butt like me…He must!