We have dairy goats and one of the wonderful benefits, besides them regarding us as
family and their very best friends…, is fresh milk and cheese. Certainly, the milk is better than anything from the grocery store, but the special joy is cracking open a jug for my coffee and scooping the cream off the top. Mmmmm.
The reason the cream can rise to the top is because the milk has not been ‘homogenized.’ Homogenization is the process of ‘beating the milk (into submission)’ so that all fat globules are sufficiently broken up to be scattered throughout the milk (if not previously scooped off the top and used for butter or sold as whipping cream). The result is that the milk is the same identical flavor and consistency from the top of the jug to the bottom…. a disappointment if you like the real variety within milk as it occurs naturally.
The key point of the illustration, as I was pondering it upon waking yesterday morning, is the effort and force necessary to homogenize the milk. It is not done easily or naturally. The way Yehovah made it, it is milk – with variety, built in.
Recently, I have been pondering how much Yehovah loves variety within the bounds He has created…
11:3 Restoration 