經文: 「以法蓮是沒有翻過的餅。」

沒翻過的餅，就是有一面尚未烤過。以法蓮人在生活中許多方面是如此，他們保留太多不讓上帝觸摸過問。他們雖然也順服，但是只部份的順服，大部份的時候，他們我行我素，自我中心，不讓上帝插手管他的事。
弟兄姐妹們，你屬靈的生命是否也是如此？你可有讓上帝在你心中居首位？讓祂在凡事上做主做王？你可將你的身體、情感、意志、靈魂，完全降服在上帝的旨意下？我們不能只在星期天做個道貌岸然、外表敬虔的基督徒，在其他時候卻恢復本來的面目，隨己意過荒唐放縱的生活，這就像沒翻過的餅一樣。在人前是一付聖潔斯文的樣子，在私下卻完全不是這麼一回事。他白天做著似乎正經的事，夜裡卻做起見不得人的勾當。這種表裡不一的偽君子，就像沒翻過的餅，一面是焦的，一面卻是生的。
主啊！若我是這樣，求祢把我翻過來，用祢的愛把我未交託的一面溫熱，散發出金黃成熟的光耀，而讓那燒焦的一面暫離祢的烈焰，好讓我看清我的弱點，加以改正。堅固我，讓我不是一個見異思遷，三心二意的人，而是一個專心一致，有始有終跟隨祢的人，我知道我若仍有保留，沒有完全交託獻上，那麼我就像沒翻過的餅，最終會燒焦到整塊都不能吃了。

Morning, June 23
Scripture: “Ephraim is a cake not turned.”(Hosea 7:8)

A cake not turned is uncooked on one side; and so Ephraim was, in many respects, untouched by divine grace: though there was some partial obedience, there was very much rebellion left. My soul, I charge thee, see whether this be thy case. Art thou thorough in the things of God? Has grace gone through the very centre of thy being so as to be felt in its divine operations in all thy powers, thy actions, thy words, and thy thoughts? To be sanctified, spirit, soul, and body, should be thine aim and prayer; and although sanctification may not be perfect in thee anywhere in degree, yet it must be universal in its action; there must not be the appearance of holiness in one place and reigning sin in another, else thou, too, wilt be a cake not turned.

A cake not turned is soon burnt on the side nearest the fire, and although no man can have too much religion, there are some who seem burnt black with bigoted zeal for that part of truth which they have received, or are charred to a cinder with a vainglorious Pharisaic ostentation of those religious performances which suit their humour. The assumed appearance of superior sanctity frequently accompanies a total absence of all vital godliness. The saint in public is a devil in private. He deals in flour by day and in soot by night. The cake which is burned on one side, is dough on the other.

If it be so with me, O Lord, turn me! Turn my unsanctified nature to the fire of thy love and let it feel the sacred glow, and let my burnt side cool a little while I learn my own weakness and want of heat when I am removed from thy heavenly flame. Let me not be found a double-minded man, but one entirely under the powerful influence of reigning grace; for well I know if I am left like a cake unturned, and am not on both sides the subject of thy grace, I must be consumed for ever amid everlasting burnings.