Spice It Up

"You are the salt of the earth. But if the salt loses its saltiness, how can it be made salty again? It is no longer good for anything, except to be thrown out and trampled underfoot"- Matthew 5:13 (NIV).

My husband and I went out to eat at our favorite Vietnamese restaurant last night, known for their delicious Pho, a flavorful soup with vegetables and noodles. I’d like to have seen my face when I took that first bite; it was terrible. The soup had no flavor. It was warm water with under-cooked vegetables. I asked them what had changed in their Pho recipe. It seems they left the spices out of the soup, saying some customers didn't like the flavorful seasoning as much as others did, so they were trying to take a middle-of-the-road-flavor stance. Yuck! That was no middle-of-the-road-flavor stance; that was a no-flavor stance. I couldn't eat mine, regardless of the amount of soy sauce I added; my husband, due to hunger, tried the hardest, but only got a cup of his soup eaten. Our lives, like the Pho soup, are no longer good if there is no flavor. It's a wasted life, like my wasted dinner, to be thrown out and trampled underfoot. Sprinkling God into our life gives flavor; then the hungry are fed. Our needs are met, as well as those who transition in and out of our daily life. They take some of our seasoning we sprinkled, with them, and hopefully sprinkle it into the lives of others they meet farther down the road they travel. Jesus does not want us to have a middle-of-the road stance with His flavoring. A no-flavor life is a no-Christ life, in which, people will walk away as hungry as you are...and people can die of hunger. Spice up your life and those around you. Sprinkle a little Jesus and be filled.