Who doesn't love potato chips? It is earth's perfect food. Potatoes, oil and the all important salt. If Matthew 5:13 were written by Mr. Lay, it would have definitely read "you are the potato chips of this earth...."
Potato chips are attractive. They are great alone, with dip smothered on top of them, a sandwich laying next to them or in my tummy! A friend once said that chips were a mere platform for dip. I disagree. I believe chips make dip taste good. Try dipping a chip in onion dip and a celery stalk in the same dip. Who wins? The chip!
When our Lord spoke of being salt, He wanted us to be people who make a difference. People who make the world a better more enjoyable place and "our" own personal daily world a place that shines the love of Christ in every little thing we do.
I would love to be thought of as a potato chip of God. If I lived my life in such a way that people wanted to have what I have because it so appealing just as it is, because it's still great or even better when weighted down with things that could otherwise smother us or because it makes everything it sits next to taste better.
Unfortunately, I get stale, I get dull, I get soggy.
Thankfully, Jesus is the master crisper and the holder of the salt shaker. Thankfully, His mercy lets me revive my saltiness and His grace gives me new life. I may not be the best potato chip in the world, but I'm a potato chip, indeed. Yum!
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