I might be the only one who remembers these, but here goes
nothing.
As a kid, I remember going to Burger King and being so
excited to get what they called “Shake ‘em up fries”.
Now just imagine you receive your grease-bag of fries and
you frantically search for a crucial ingredient.
Your heart skips a beat because you think they forgot it,
but then you see it:
The packet.
A little packet of cheesy, mass-produced…well, whatever that
stuff actually was.
You empty your bag of burger content and toss the fries in
along with a heavy dose of the shake ‘em up dust, close the top and shake your
way into the fast-food dream kingdom.
I will admit I thoroughly enjoyed these fries while they
lasted. And if you’re reading this and happen to work for Burger King, I would
definitely buy them again!
Now I honestly don’t know how this thought occurred in my
mind, but it happened a couple weeks ago when I was thinking about God’s
goodness and being gospel-centered.
We often treat Jesus, like some optional packet of fry-enhancing dust.
Paul tells us in Corinthians, we are “bought with a price” (1Cor. 7:23)
Ok, so remove Christianity and all things gospel and imagine
you buy a CD.
You want the new Beyoncé album, cause it has “yo new jam” on
it and so you put in your hoop earrings in and pop the disc in and it starts
playing college business calculus lectures.
That’s not what you bought it for.
It’s not like the CD has the right to change its content.
The CD didn’t buy itself.
The CD didn’t make itself.
You didn’t create yourself.
God has purchased us, with blood.
No paper contracts, just nails.
He knew that we would sometimes play the wrong tunes and
serve the wrong purpose but he still bought us.
Therefore, we owe our lives to him.
If you understand the Gospel, you understand how critical it
is to realize you are not your own.
“Adding Jesus”, to your daily life isn’t a choice if you
have a relationship with Christ.
He’s not a bag of flavor-dust; He is King.
He’s not an add-on: He’s IT.
Our lives are not to
be “Jesus-involved”; they are to be “Christ-centered”.
