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