On the Offense

Day 3 since I have completely lost my senses...haha. Still can't smell or taste a thing.  Yesterday, out of habit, I put ketchup on my eggs, and french vanilla in my coffee. Why? Last night, while I dipped my flavorless fish sticks in tasteless ketchup, I had an epiphany. What a waste to eat something that has no flavor. Today, I drank my coffee black, and the only reason I had coffee was so the warmth might break up my sinuses and soothe my sore throat. I could have easily drank hot water, and it would have tasted exactly the same. This morning, I examined my foolish, flavorless food consumption and thought, How many times do we do things out of habit, and get no satisfaction from it? How many times have we just put up with the same old stuff because it's what we know, what we are comfortable with, what we have done all our lives? What a waste of effort, time, and, in this case, calories! So, after looking at my situation with different eyes, I decided it's a perfect time to stick it to the devil and have a day of prayer and fasting. I am praying for healing of my family and extended family, that He orders our every step, and for new senses, both physical and spiritual. Matthew 5:13 says, "We are the salt of the earth." How awful it is when something that is meant to have salt, doesn't. I ate a bag of chips yesterday in hopes that maybe the extreme saltiness would come through, even a small bit, but it didn't. I craved flavor, and tasted nothing. We were created to crave the things of God. In fact, everyone has felt the pangs of hunger inside of them and many don't realize what they are truly yearning for is God. The devil, who was once an angel in the presence of the Lord, has felt this hunger, for all of creation experiences it. Our deep desire is to be satisfied in a real way. The enemy of our soul has placed things in the world to attempt to satisfy that craving with everything else but God. Many are full, yet, few are satisfied.


We, as Christians, are called to bring out the flavor of God in all that we do, and we should make others thirsty for Him. We should be able to be used by God to melt an ice cold heart, and heal the wounds of the afflicted. Salt by itself, is undesirable, at best. Salt that has lost it's saltiness is worthless. Salt is meant to be added to something to change and transform that thing which it touches. Knowing what salt does, has no value, unless you actually put it to use. So, the devil can have my bland breakfast, lifeless lunch and drab dinner...I am feasting on the Word so I can become a little more salty...and in the meantime, drinking of the Living Water, and eating the Bread of Life which never disappoints and always satisfies!