Flavor

Luke 14:³⁴ “Salt is good for seasoning. But if it loses its flavor, how do you make it salty again? ³⁵ Flavorless salt is good neither for the soil nor for the manure pile. It is thrown away. Anyone with ears to hear should listen and understand!” I love seasoning, especially salt and pepper, and when I put salt and pepper on some fries, I almost lose consciousness because it is so flavorful. Or full of flavor. I have been using sea salt as of late, and it just doesn't do as much for flavoring my food as good old Morton's table salt. When I go to a restaurant, and they don't have ground-up pepper, then those big chunks of pepper won't even go through the hole in the shaker. Trying to get enough flavor from those pepper shakers is a waste of my time, and I give up on it immediately. (yeah, I'm a tag spoiled)

My son took me on a trip to Ireland, and the first dinner meal we had, I picked up the pepper shaker and turned it over, and a glorious amount of pepper poured out on my meal, and I looked up at Ty and said, Oh yeah, this is gonna be a great trip.

I love flavor, and salt may be the best for me, but if I pour some white salt on a meal and it doesn't change the flavor of the meal, I can't even enjoy the rest of the meal because it is bland. The Christian life is a life of excitement and victory as provided by the Holy Spirit, and the more we study God's Word, the more exciting it gets. The flavor of someone who has surrendered to the leadership of the Holy Spirit can't help but bring joy and power into this world because that person is Spirit-filled and on call for the King of Kings, and Lord of Lords, and they cannot help themselves. They actually believe what the Bible says, and they follow the Word of God with that total faith that turns their crank like nothing else!!

If you will surrender your will to the will of the Father and allow the Holy Spirit that is in your heart to control you, the end result will be flavor. But if you deny Jesus all of your life and you are a compromised believer, then you will lose that flavor, and your faith walk will become stale, and your faith is ready for the manure pile. Manure is refuse that is thrown out as worthless, and that is what your flavor will be. Since manure is organic, it is biodiversified, and the nutrients can be processed to actually become a great fertilizer. All is not lost for the flavorless believer, and to reclaim that part of your life that can turn you around is when you discover that you haven't given your whole life to Jesus, and you need Him to be the flavor in your life. Hebrews says it this way in Hebrews 6: ⁴ For it is impossible to bring back to repentance those who were once enlightened—those who have experienced the good things of heaven and shared in the Holy Spirit, ⁵ who have tasted the goodness of the word of God and the power of the age to come— ⁶ and who then turn away from God. It is impossible to bring such people back to repentance; by rejecting the Son of God, they themselves are nailing him to the cross once again and holding him up to public shame.

Since you have been saved and sealed, your salvation is intact, but your flavor has been compromised, and you need one thing: PERSONAL REVIVAL. Time to repent and turn back to Jesus with full surrender and pray to be filled with the Holy Spirit and He will fill you like nothing ever went wrong. God spoke the following to the prophet Isaiah in Isaiah 30:¹⁸ So the Lord must wait for you to come to him so he can show you his love and compassion. For the Lord is a faithful God. Blessed are those who wait for his help. Get the flavor of the Holy Spirit back in your life and come back to God as He calls you to repentance. Do not let the world trample over you. Matthew 5: ¹³ “You are the salt of the earth. But what good is salt if it has lost its flavor? Can you make it salty again? It will be thrown out and trampled underfoot as worthless. You were

flavored for greatness!!!

The Pilgrimage Continues,

David Warren