how to eat thin mint cookies

I don't like thin mint cookies. You can't dunk 'em! What good are cookies that you can't dunk in milk? I've heard people say that you can break them in half and dunk them but it doesn't work, not really.
Did you know that God's word is compared to milk? 1Peter 2:2 says;

crave pure spiritual milk, so that by it you may grow up in your salvation, 3 now that you have tasted that the Lord is good.

Sometimes I think we are like thin mint cookies. Maybe we splash around in God's word a bit or listen to a teacher or read a good book but did the milk soak in?

Paul says in Romans12:2b Let God transform you inwardly by a complete change of your mind.

I like this. I like that it's God's job to transform us inwardly, we just have to let Him. In the verse before, Paul says;
Romans 12:1 Offer yourselves as a living sacrifice to God, dedicated to His service and pleasing to Him.

Offer ourselves...be willing to be used totally by Him.

There is a way to eat thin mint cookies with milk all soaked inside. My friend, Alan taught me. You bite off a little piece from the opposite edges of the cookie making a fat, round straw. Stick one end in the milk and suck the milk in with the other end. It's genius!

Romans 11:36
For all things were created by Him, and all things exist through Him and for Him.

You weren't meant to be a dry cookie. You were created by God, you exist through Him and you were meant to live for Him. Romans 12:2 also says that if you get all soaky inside with His mind...'you will be able to know the will of God-what is good, and is pleasing to Him, and is perfect.'

What's a dry cookie to do? Let God transform you daily. Offer yourself as a big, fat cookie straw that He can use. Spend time in the Milk but let the Spirit suck into you so that you won't be 'conformed outwardly to the standards of this world' but be transformed inwardly by a complete change of your mind.

The coolest thing is that it's all 'God's gracious gift' freely given to those who offer themselves to accept it. Be the soaky cookie. :)