So.
I was just in the lunchroom and I had a lady in front of me with a salad and a lady behind me with a salad. When we approached the check out... one lady said to the other. "Ghee, looks like we had the same thing in mind?" and the other lady replies.. "Yeah but I have half low fat and half real dressing I just can't eat the low fat by itself" and then the other lady replies back, "You get use to it... but you've got to add salt. It's just not bareable without it."
In between them.. there I stood.
Mexican Casserole. Noodles, Hamburger, Onions, Jalapenos, whole tomatoes and a WHITE roll. Now. Maybe I should have been thinking to myself, "Gosh, I should be eating more healthy than this..." but, I wasn't. Instead I was thinking to myself....
Why would someone settle for something that is absolutely UNPLEASING, DISATSIFYING, and UNBEARABLE without "Additives"?
I think peoples spiritual lives have gotten caught up in this same predicament.
We walk around this world settling to be a mold of what the world sees as "picture perfect". This magazine model of "even" proportions is a goal for dang near everybody. The thing is, seeking to be this mold... this even proportion to everyone else...takes the much needed nutrition out of our walks with God and out of our desire to be something bigger than ourselves.
Matthew 5:13-14 says...
You are the salt of the earth but if the salt looses its saltiness how can it be made salty again? It is no longer good for anything except to be thrown out and trampled by men.
The interesting concept with salt is.... salt makes you thirsty. It makes you want MORE of whatever it takes to quench your thirst. How interesting is it that this lady was eating food of no value to her until she put salt in it.
How many times in our lives do consume things of no value?
How many times in our lives do we pursue things... of no value?
How many times in our lives do we loose our saltiness?
And at what point do we figure out...
That Life is just miserable without it?
Things that make me go hmm.
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