Today was my first day of classes and I must say it was rather grueling. After a long day of standing in lines at both the bookstore and the parking tag line and sitting through two classes I finally made it home. As I began eating dinner I started searching for something to watch on TV. My choice(after searching my 300 something channels) ended up being a selection from my free movies portion of the Comcast menu--Julie and Julia. Of course as I watched the movie, the leftover casserole I was scarfing down became less and less appealing.
While drooling through the movie and contemplating my leftovers, one line that really stuck with me was something Julia Childs (Meryl Streep) says about the flavor of butter in her recipes: "You can never have too much butter."
Just like butter, Christ wants us to share our own flavor with the world...
He says in Matthew 5:13, "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 by men."
Have you ever really thought about the purposes of salt? It not only adds flavor, but it preserves and heals. (Sorry Julia..salt triumphs over salt in this flavor contest!) Our purpose as Christians on earth is to share our salt with the world, but in order for us to do this we must not loose our saltiness. We must keep our 'zest for Christ' or we are useless to the cause.
In the book I'm reading: "Stop Acting Like a Christian" Caine writes: "...Salt was never designed to remain in the shaker, the Church was never created to remain insular. We are called to live from the inside out both personally and corporately."
So as I watch Julie finds herself through cooking her way through Julia Childs cookbook (with tons of butter), the Lord encourages me through His Word to keep pressing on.
