Faith and Hot Sauce

I have been in Texas for about 9 weeks now and it seems like everyone I come into contact with is always having hot sauce with their food. It’s as if, it’s not complete without the sauce or it just doesn’t seem right without the sauce. I have been avoiding hot sauce since I have been here until today when I found myself using hot sauce but definitely not the hottest of hot sauces. Even though it wasn’t the hottest of sauces, and I can almost guarantee that I will have some people convincing me and getting me to try other hot sauces as well.

So, why am I talking about this? It’s because the above can be related to our faith as well. While some think that they need to have hot sauce with their food to make it complete, so to do we need Christ in our every day lives and at the center of everything to be complete. Without Christ in the center of what we do, then things will not be complete and we will be left with a faith that has no “taste”. Just as if you eat tortilla chips, it’s different when they are eaten without anything and then when you add hot sauce to them, then the taste is different, the sauce adds flavor and for some it makes sense to have the sauce with the chips and see why someone would eat the tortilla chips plain.

That’s the same with our faith. As Christians, we need to add flavor and purpose to what we believe and have Christ as the center. If we overlook Christ then we are left with a faith that doesn’t make sense just like the tortilla chips with no hot sauce. Also, the sauce makes a difference and as Christians and a body of Christ, we are meant to make a difference in this world. We are meant to glorify God with everything that we do, we are meant to exemplify Christ where people see Christ in us through our actions and just by looking at us rather than having to wonder about what we believe, etc. Just like the chips with hot sauce, you can tell by looking at the chip if it is dull or if it has flavor just by looking and seeing if it has hot sauce on it.

As I continue living in Texas and working in Texas, I am hoping that I am someone that makes a difference rather than make no difference, that people will be able to see Christ exemplified in me through my actions and not have to wonder what I believe, and that I continue putting God at the center of everything I do! As for the hot sauce, we will see what comes from that and if people are successful at convincing me into using hot sauce since they do have 2 years to accomplish this.

So, are you like hot sauce and making a difference and putting God at the center of everything or are you living a faith that doesn’t make sense just like tortilla chips and food without hot sauce doesn’t make sense to many people?