Spiritual Salads

As my first blog post, I feel like I need to explain my attempt here. I will post semi-regularly (hopefully) on my life, the analogies that I hear and think of, my feelings about Jesus, and really anything I feel like. I am no Biblical scholar, but have a love for the Word and my LORD. What I write here is from my study of the Word and don’t take it for yourself. Actually, I encourage you to research it on your own. Don’t take my word for it, but rather wrestle with my words and read the Bible for yourself. Send me a Facebook message if you wish and maybe you will be able to shed some light on the situation. Most importantly, my words are not the Bible. This is just from one girl who is passionately in love with her Creator and wishes to share with the world. I hope to share more about myself and what Abba, Father has done in my life. God Bless and enjoy!

Though my absolute hatred for salads might make this post seem a tiny bit odd, it will (hopefully) make sense in the end.

What are most salads made of? Lettuce, spinach, arugula, or various other types of greenery. Our basic foundation of any salad (yes, I am excluding fruit salad) is lettuce or greens. Every Christian should have the same foundation in Christ. (2 Cor. 5:16-17; 1 Cor. 12) yet be different.

While our spiritual gifts, struggles, and sins give us our diversity in Christ (as the body of Christ), we still, as the Body of Christ, are unified in this.

Something I struggle with personally is desiring to be like others in the faith. I desire to be like “so and so” with an ability to do “this or that.” Until recently, I used to think that striving after other’s abilities was ok.

We are each made distinctly different for one single purpose: to glorify Christ and expand His Kingdom. When we do not follow and cultivate our own attributes that God has gifted us with, we are defying God’s purpose for our lives. We have to be satisfied with ourselves and the gifts God has given to us in order to advance the Kingdom. If we are striving to be someone else, no matter how closely that person follows God, we are not following Abba, Father, and therefore will be striving after something other than what our main purpose is. “You can be passionately wrong.”

Personally, after taking a spiritual gifts test this past week, I discovered that my lowest score was mercy. I scored a 12/25. Now, it isn’t super-duper low or anything, but I almost felt as though if I am desiring to follow the Father, I should be more merciful, like He has been in my life. But what I didn’t focus on was my main score. Administration scored 23/25. God has blessed me with the ability to plan and organize and make things happen. If I am so busy focusing on the lack of tomatoes, if you will, in my life, I am not focusing on the boldness of the carrots.

Yes, my “spiritual salad” doesn’t have a lot of tomatoes, but my salad does have carrots. Now, what we have to do is take the prominent spiritual gifts that the Holy Spirit provides us with and use them for the Kingdom.

Because I have bookoodles of carrots and not a lot of tomatoes does not mean that God cannot use me. As Christians, we are founded upon the lettuce and the Spirit adds carrots, tomatoes, fruit, croutons, nuts, and various other salad paraphernalia.

So, the entire point of this is to use your gifts and even struggles to glorify God and expand the Kingdom. Use your particular “spiritual salad” to the glory of God.

Peace to the brothers, and love with faith, from God the Father and the LORD Jesus Christ. Grace be with all who have undying love for our LORD Jesus Christ.-Ephesians 6:23-24

Meghan