Week 2- The Blender

A little over a month ago my kitchen was introduced to new sets of appliances, which were gifts from friends and family through my recent wedding. I had never owned a blender, never really had a use for it, but after witnessing my wife blend a mango and banana together to make a tear-jerking amazing Banango shake, I instantly became hooked on blending (almost developing a secret desire to be a professional blender artist). The reason I bring this up is not because I want to give you a sales pitch for the latest seventeen speed turbo blast blender, soon to be in your nearest Wal-Mart, but to share with you what I began to notice about my walk with God as I saw the nature of what a blender really does.

Sometimes when you are finished blending two or more things together, you can’t tell what it was you even mixed. It all just becomes one, but you can still taste a hint of all the different fruits. I catch myself sometimes doing the same thing with God’s word, and His desire for our lives. I will sometimes blend and mix His desire with mine and convince myself it’s the same, but it is not. We sometimes mix one part God’s desire like 1 Peter 1:15 “but as he who called you is holy, you also be holy in all your conduct” and mix it with a dash of our own selfish desire such as, “Be holy only to certain people or when someone is looking” or even worse, “be my version of holy and not God’s.”

That kind of mixing is bad for our spiritual health. Its like holding a juice container that says 100% real juice on the front only to find out from reading the back label that it is filled with eighteen added ingredients, things that don’t even belong in the juice are present and it takes away from the full value of vitamins that the real juice has to offer. We sometimes add ingredients to God’s desire for us because maybe it would be a lot easier to swallow; maybe it will taste better; maybe it will help us not to recognize our sin and make us feel bad; maybe it makes living for Christ comfortable for us, but simply put, God’s will and His desire for us is the perfect mix. It is all we need to consume. Anything else is just fake juice, an imitation that won’t truly satisfy us at all.

So then how do we know if we are blending God’s desire with ours? Are we making everyday decisions based on what we truly desire, even though it conflicts with what God’s word says? Are we making choices that lead us to be more like Jesus Christ? Let’s pull the plug from the blender, take out everything we put in it, and drink directly from the source.

John 4:14 “but whoever drinks of the water that I shall give him will never thirst.”

Ask yourself: When was the last time God's word changed your plans?

*Prayer: “Lord Almighty, I am sorry for trying to hide sin. I need Your help. Please show me where I have mixed your desire for my life with mine. I decide today to return to you, the true source, so that I may replenish my soul by the consumption of Your word. -Amen