Salt In My Kitchen
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Things that frequently come to the attention of the homemaker supply the theme for this book of devotional readings. Tied with scriptural admonitions and points of emphasis, these common everyday objects and events provide illustrations for the truth found in selected Bible passages.
One hundred twenty-two separate devotional thoughts speak to the heart under such titles: "Against a Rainy Day," "When God Is Slow," "Spock Style," "The Right to Be Angry," "The Twenty-Four-Hour Virus," "Sunday Dinner," and "Burned Toast." There is something for each day to make a homemaker's daily experiences spiritually rewarding and meaningful.
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Salt In My Kitchen - Jeanette Lockerbie
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SALT IN MY KITCHEN
BIBLE READING: Colossians 4:2-6
Let your speech at all times be gracious (pleasant and winsome), seasoned [as it were] with salt (v. 6a, Amplified).
Take salt out of our kitchens, and what will be the effect? The finest culinary creation will be tasteless. Eating will be robbed of most of its pleasure.
Salt has other notable qualities besides that of taste:
Salt cleanses. The Prophet Elisha recognized this fact when he used salt to cleanse the waters (II Kings 2:20-22). Surely the analogy is plain. What is more refreshing than cleanliness? The custom of bathing newborn babies with salt was practiced by the Israelites (Ezekiel 16:4) and continues in some parts of the world today. We apply the salt
of concern and love in bathing a baby, or cleaning a home to make it a haven after a day in the working world’s grime.
Salt seasons. The Bible calls Christians the salt of the earth,
and warns against losing our savour
that seasons the world. We should allow this spiritual salt
to season our conversation and back up our Christian testimony. Let your speech be alway with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man
(Colossians 4:6).
Salt de-ices. The layer of ice on the porch steps on a January morning is much like the ice-bound heart, hard as a rock from the impact of bitter experiences. Both melt beneath the application of salt: one, the literal commodity; the other, the salt
of kindness and peace. Have salt in yourselves, and have peace one with another
(Mark 9:50b).
Can you think of any better place to sprinkle this salt
than your own kitchen? Or any better time than right now?
SHINY-EYED BRIDE
BIBLE READING: I Corinthians 13:1-5
Over the threshold into a world as new as the going-away outfit! New china and linens, shiny new pots and pans, new furniture—and new responsibilities.
Over the threshold into a world as old as Eden: one man, one woman. Two individuals joined in holy matrimony,
as the minister intoned in the ceremony.
Individualism is not submerged. You are the same you. Personality is not one whit changed.
God, who made us, knows the propensities in all of us for selfishness, for self-seeking that leads to many other happiness-destroying traits.
We would do well then to take to heart right from the carrying over the threshold
—the beginning of a new life—the far-reaching counsel of the love chapter of the Bible (I Corinthians 13).
Love [God’s love in us] does not insist on its own rights or its own way, for it is not self-seeking; it is not touchy or fretful or resentful (v. 5, Amplified).
Living by God’s pattern you can assure a marriage that will be, as Evangelist John Linton entitled a popular sermon for young adults:
A heaven in which to go to heaven.
BETTER THAN A TRANQUILIZER
BIBLE READING: Philippians 4:4-8
Here is a last piece of advice…. fix your minds on the things which are holy and right and pure and beautiful and good…. and you will find that the God of peace will be with you (vv. 8-9, Phillips).
Surely there is no better psychological restorative than this verse in all of God’s Word. Think on these things
the King James Bible says. These
refers to balance-restoring, nerve-calming thoughts.
Undoubtedly the Apostle Paul wrestled often with his thoughts: thoughts of friends who had forsaken him, converts who had disappointed him, his own physical discomfort, the uncertain future, the very real possibility of a violent death. Far from dwelling on these things,
Paul left us a formula for triumphing over such thoughts.
His advice to the Christians in Philippi was, Think on what will uplift you, not on what will drag you into depression and despair.
This was not winking at facts as they were. Neither was his exhortation to make the best of a bad thing.
Paul knew the mental, emotional, physical and spiritual value of such thinking
; such fixing your mind.
Real value. Not to be compared for a moment with the world’s panacea: tranquilizers.
Whatsoever things are lovely
Will crowd out the unlovely.
THE EARLY BIRD
BIBLE READING: Mark 1:35-39
There was a time when the words early bird
had an earthy, catch-the-worm connotation. Today the reference to an early bird will more than likely pertain to the Early Bird satellite.
Regardless of the generation or season, one early bird
can be depended on to break the morning stillness: the year-or-so-old baby, herald of the dawn.
This eagerness to start the new day may not be echoed by the average mother, tired by her yesterday. Nevertheless, the one who will surmount the weariness and rise up a great while before dawn
(or a reasonable equivalent according to the family schedule) will be rewarded for her effort.
In the quiet morning hour comes strength for the day. In the recognition that we are more than flesh and blood, that we are spirit and soul, in the deliberate feeding of our inner self, comes power to overcome the turmoil and conflicts of the day. The minutes spent in reading God’s Word, in prayer and communion with our heavenly Father, will be reflected throughout long hours.
Admittedly it takes grim determination to roll out when the alarm sounds reveille. But remember the words of Harriet Beecher Stowe:
Still, still with Thee
When purple morning breaketh.
This is the hour when clear-channel communication between the busy homemaker and her God will prove infinitely more worthwhile than any early bird
system ever dreamed of.
THE MAKER OF ALL
BIBLE READING: John 1:1-4
All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made (v. 3).
What does a mother say when she is confronted with blatant atheism in childish form? What happens when second-grade Jimmy announces, My friend Phil is the smartest boy in our class. He says ‘God is made out of chemicals.’
Jimmy’s mother is well aware of the strong admiration her son has for the class brain.
How can she contend with the problem of destroying blasphemous seed without alienating the friend? How can she plant good seed in its place?
Her answer came, as all such answers can come, from the Bible itself.
Jimmy,
advised his mother, "ask Phil this question: ‘If God is made out of chemicals, who made the chemicals?’ You can go on then and tell him that God made everything. Don’t argue, son. Just tell him you believe the Bible and this is what the Bible teaches."
One thing we can count on: the devil will assail our children. He will strive to plant seeds of doubt that He [God] is Himself before all
(Colossians 1:17a, Berkeley).
Being forewarned we can be forearmed. Consistent prayer for and with our family is the best of all bulwarks. We are indebted too, for confidence and assurance, to the hymn writer C. F. Alexander for the words:
All things bright and beautiful, all creatures great and small,
All things wise and wonderful, the Lord God made them all.
AGAINST A RAINY DAY
BIBLE READING: Psalm 119:10-16
Thy word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against thee (v. 11).
I just can’t seem to memorize anything,
is a typical reaction to a Sunday school teacher’s suggestion that an adult pupil commit some Bible verses to memory.
Contrast this with the zeal of a Chinese convert from heathenism in this missionary’s story:
My house has only a bamboo roof,
explained the convert, and when the rains come they leak through. I do not want the rain to leak on the Word of God. Rain cannot leak into my heart, so I write God’s Word in my heart.
The new Christian then demonstrated his ability to quote whole passages of the Bible.
He lived to see other rains
rob him of the Bible. The godless Communists stormed through his country. They took his Bible but they could not rob him of what he had hidden in his heart.
Who can tell how long we will enjoy precious freedom to read God’s Word? Why not make the most of it. You can’t memorize? Maybe you would like to try what other homemakers have found to be successful: Tack up a typed Bible verse where you will see it often in the course of a day. Put it above the kitchen sink or near the ironing board. Think of how you can lighten your daily duties and relieve the monotony by memorizing God’s Word.
And you will, like our Chinese convert, have built a spiritual shelter against a rainy day.
SAND, STARS AND PROMISES
BIBLE READING: Genesis 22:13-18
I will multiply thy seed as the stars of the heaven, and as the sand which is upon the sea shore (v. 17).
Traveling through the desert, perhaps pausing to filter handfuls of sand through his fingers, did Abraham ponder God’s