I could go the rest of my life without having another ice cream cone. I could die a happy man never having had another milk shake. To not taste the cold teeth chilling frozen nectar of the cow would be just fine with me. It is no secret, I am a fan of salty foods. I can pass on a chocolate bar of any variety, but a bowl of chips, not so much. My weakness is salty foods!
I’m a salt guy. Some of you are sweets, I’m salts.
This past saturday night we were with some friends and our families were hanging out sharing a meal together. After the main course, we finished up the meal with a cup of coffee. A delightful treat if you ask me. So I got up to go fix my cup of coffee and another well known fact is that I am not a black coffee drinker. I love coffee, but it has got to have scream and sugar in it. I was making the perfect cup of coffee, I stirred it all up and then I was going in for the test. The sweet, hot, belly warming cup of joe was ready to satisfy when all of a sudden my taste buds screamed at me, ” WAIT, STOP, GO NO FURTHER, THIS IS NOT WHAT YOU THINK IT IS!” I had “sweetened” my coffee with none other than 2 tsp of salt!
I can’t tell you how quickly I spat that out of my mouth. It was a matter of seconds. It was disgusting, and revolting. Have you ever had a moment like this, where something tastes so bad that the only thing you can do is spit it out of your mouth?
It’s funny to me, that salty coffee invoked a response of immediate propulsion from my mouth. It’s just coffee, it’s just a bad taste, it has no significant life altering ramifications attached to drinking it. I was not in danger. I just flat out couldn’t stomach it.
In the book of Revelation God tells John to write this message down. To a specific church in Laodicea he says, “I know your deeds, that you are neither cold nor hot; I wish that you were cold or hot. So because you are lukewarm, and neither hot nor cold, I will spit you out of My mouth.” God is saying you are lukewarm, you have a lazy faith! This kind of a thing drives me nuts!
I totally get what God is saying. It’s kind of like Salty Coffee.
~Peter
