Originally posted on Facebook on Sunday, December 4, 2022.

I enjoy grits.

A lot of people load them with butter, cheese and even stuff like shrimp.

All I need is salt.

Grits boiled in water and salt.

Without salt, grits become a mushy mess in your mouth with no flavor because everything tastes the same.

Salt altogether changes the flavor, bringing out the taste and even textures that would have otherwise been undetectable.

Salt accomplishes this feat because its taste is distinct. Its flavor is sharp, almost biting, like a minor key in a major chord, elevating the melody of the ingredients on our palette.

The world is a mushy flavorless mess. Everything tastes the same and the world doesn't even know what it's missing because Christians are like everyone around them. We, too often, are not set apart, peculiar or distinct.

We're salt with no flavor.

Our Lord taught that one of the defining characteristics of those who are true salt (authentic disciples of Jesus Christ) is their relationship to money.

Luke 14:34-35 says,

“Salt is good; but if the salt has lost its flavor, how shall it be seasoned? It is neither fit for the land nor for the dunghill, but men throw it out. He who has ears to hear, let him hear!”

And, here's the verse that immediately precedes it:

"So likewise, whoever of you does not forsake all that he has cannot be My disciple."
Luke 14:33

As Christians many of us have lost our flavor because we seek what the world seeks, –our heart's desire is material gain and to lay up treasure on earth (according to the pattern and value system of this world). Repent, with me.

Lord Jesus, I love money (material possessions). I repent! Give me your heart and free me from the love of money so that I may be salt for You to lead people into the everlasting enjoyment of the true riches!