Season all your grain offerings with salt. Do not leave the salt of the covenant of your God out of your grain offerings; add salt to all your offerings. Leviticus 2:13
How does the Christian life so easily lose its flavor? It should be exciting and filled with joy, but too many days it seems like we have chosen to eat bread without salt. We all know it - that pasty taste of flour without salt. It makes our tongues stick to the tops of our mouths. Something that we expected to be wonderful was dreary and bland.
Somehow, we have forgotten that God intended for us to live our lives to the full. We spend our time grieving the things we have left behind, rather than enjoying the One with whom we walk.
Lord, I think I have forgotten to add the salt of the covenant to my offerings. Lately, it seems my Christian walk has become routine and mundane - lacking the flavor of joy. Although I spend time in Your Word, I haven't made the time to spend with You. It's interesting how there is so much we can glean from Scripture; the principles found in its pages bring life. Yet, You long for us to know You, the Author, and not just the words You have written. Somehow, I stopped seeking You. Somehow, I started to look for ways to please You without spending any time with You.
Hmm... this sounds like marriage. Anyone who has been married knows what it is like to live in the same house without really seeing each other. Days can pass without really conversing. The greatest human relationship in your life can somehow become bland, boring - lacking flavor. Maybe my walk with You isn't my only problem.
Jesus, help me to put the salt back into my life - into my relationship with You - into my relationships here at home and at work. I want to live a life that makes others ask, "Could I have a taste?"