A LITTLE SALT WITH THAT?

A number of years ago — the grandkids were young — we had a fantastic Sunday.  Hamburgers on the grill.  Bubbles.  Conversation.  Frisbee contest.  Adults talking and kids playing.  It was such a great day.

UNTIL ….  Until it was time for homemade ice cream.  Now, you would think, ice cream, with all the toppings, would be the hit of the day.  The piece de resistance!  The kids lined up with bowls in hand.  They had smiles.  They were eyeing the toppings.  Their minds were already making choices on chocolate or butterscotch or nuts or whipped topping or all of them.  They held out their bowl.  They added toppings, sat down, and took a bite.  It was ….

The look on their faces.  What could be wrong?  I know I put all the ingredients in.  It looked great when we dipped it out.  No one was eating it.  They all had the look of, “This is awful.” What could be wrong?

Salt?  Why does the ice cream taste like salt?  Those poor kids had all taken a very large bite and then tried to figure out what to do.  Swallowing didn’t seem to be an option.  Spitting it out ….. 

Luckily, we had made two batches of ice cream.  The second freezer of ice cream was very good. 

How did salt get in the ice cream? Well …. We discovered a very, very, very tiny hole in the seam around the bottom of the canister.  Salt had seeped in while it was being cranked.  Salt seeped in while it was waiting to be eaten. 

I fixed ice cream last weekend.  Guess what I heard from the grandkids.  Yup.  Even after all these years, they reminded me not to put salt in.  I always reply, “It was not me.  There was a hole in the canister.”

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It is amazing how much salt did get into the ice cream.  It was such a tiny hole.  You had to know where to look to even see it.  That hole and salt are sorta like Satan and sin.

Satan can find even the smallest hole and use that hole to whisper, “Go ahead.  No one will know.”  Or, “It was okay the first time, once more won’t hurt.”  Or, “All your friends are doing it.  You want to be like your friends, don’t you?”

Then, the sin, just like the salt, changes everything. 

Take a good look at your life.  Your actions.  Is there a tiny, tiny, very tiny hole that sin can slip through?

If there is, get in gear and fix that hole!