I started a new book this week, "Blue Like Jazz" by Donald Miller. (I'm probably the only one that hasn't read it yet) This morning I read one of the coolest things I have read in a long while.
In chapter four he is talking about his friend Penny and how she became a Christian. Penny tells him the story about how she began reading the Bible with her friend Nadine.
She says, "We would eat chocolates and smoke cigarettes and read the Bible, which is the only way to do it if you ask me. Don, the Bible is so good with chocolate. I always thought the Bible was more of a salad thing, you know, but it isn't. It's a chocolate thing. And I found Jesus very disturbing, very straightforward".
WOW! Thank you God for revealing something so cool about yourself that I never thought about in those terms before. A relationship with Jesus should be sweet, straightforward and have substance. It should be something that once we have tasted it, we should crave it above all other things. It should not be like a salad that we eat just because it's good for us and we know we should.
We don't need to add anything to chocolate to make it appealing and wonderful, but we add all kinds of things to salad to make it more desirable and full of taste. Jesus stands alone as sweet and fulfilling; sometimes disturbing but always straightforward. Just like chocolate.
No dressing needed.
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