Imagine coming into a restaurant to eat and you are given a stale food and you happen to be a good cook who can discern fresh from frozen food. Some don’t so we are going to look from the angle of a person who is a good cook. Yuck! This was what happened to one of Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares USA (Mangia Mangia Series 7 episode 4). The kitchen was a mess despite the fact that the front looks good and clean: the four microwave, the walk-in freezer is filled with rotten crumbs of food and the organization was absolute chaos! Ramsay did his ritual food tasting and found out how bad the food tastes. He even asked one of the waiters to taste the food and see how cold it was and how bad it was cooked. He went to the kitchen to see how it was being run and saw that 95% of their food was frozen and microwaved. The cook knows nothing about cooking and the boss was always cursing out and this gave room for her workers to disrespect her. You can say, oh that’s restaurants for you! But have you ever considered this restaurant as your family or your local church or even as your workplace, when things are not going the way you believe it should be.

Mangia means eat. Bear in mind everyone loves fresh food, fresh fruits, smelling fresh before going to bed (if time and fatigue can afford you that), etc. As the head in your home when last did you tell your wife you love her. How lovely she looks and go an extra mile by picking her up from work, and from there taking her out to dinner or sightseeing. As a wife when last did you surprise your husband by coming home early just to welcome him home, escort him to the bathroom and stand by the door to discuss the day’s event, then serve him a different meal from the usual, and finally giving him the room service……lol. This may not be an everyday affair but at least two or three times in a month – this keeps the marriage light aglow. Most times we give an excuse instead of setting the pace first. Beloved to avoid the above story I narrated of which happens a lot in our homes today because of the pressure from our workplace, school work, demand from our children and other social activities, we tend to lose it by forgetting our most important priority – our spouse! Let me use this analysis to get across my message:

Ramsay – The Saviour (Jesus); The Boss – Husband; The Cook – Wife; The Waiters/kitchen assistants – Children; The Clients – The demands both school and office work, etc.

When we neglect the most important thing we need to do, every other thing begins to suffer no matter how well we feel we are doing or others think we are doing. This is why so many families are suffering. When the husband refuses to key into what Jesus is saying by the reason of His word and tries to give excuses and pushes the blame to the needs of the wife, children or outside demands (pressure). His family (restaurant) is bound to fail. What makes a family beautiful inside-out is the consistency of the respect between father and mother and their relationship with God of which rubs off on the children by the reason of them seeing their parents trust God in times of trouble and lack, and as they face the demands of the outside world.