Mixed Drinks

Webster’s Dictionary defines, mix, as ‘to unite or blend into one mass.’ Mix up, is defined ‘to confuse.’ Simply put, mix is, puttin two things together. Now I’ve never tasted a mixed drink but I have been known to order my water on the rocks. Mixing is a funny thing, it can enhance a substance or it can create a mess. For instance, when it comes to a casserole or a bowl of soup, the more vegetables and meats the merrier. Also with medicine, just the right amount of chemicals and elements could save your life. Then again if you mix Cool-Aid and new carpet, you have a life threatening mess. When you mix, hot sauce and Mexican your stomach is in a mess. So then, “to mix or not to mix, that is the question.”

It’s interesting that Nestlé bottles water called, “Pure Life.” That’s funny I thought pure life only came through Jesus Christ, but you can purchase it, for like a dollar at any Seven-Eleven along with your lottery ticket. Now that 16oz bottle of “Pure Life” water is pure and clean, good for drinking, but if you were to mix in just a pinch of dirt, that whole bottle of water would be no good to you because it wouldn’t be ‘pure’ anymore. Even though there is 16oz of pure water, it only takes a pinch of dirt to contaminate the whole thing.

When Jesus in John 13, was washing His disciple’s feet and Peter objected, Christ told Him this had to be done if Peter was to have a part with Him. Peter then proclaimed wash all of me and Jesus told him, “He who has bathed needs only to wash his feet…” As Christians we have been bathed in the blood of Jesus, we are clean. Yet there are times (these times are quite frequent for me) when we need to have Jesus wash our feet. This is because we have been mixing our ‘pure life’ with a dirty world. This is actually a very serious problem and one that the church has lost focus of. Another word for mix is compromise. Jesus calls us to be in the world but not of it. We as light are to have no dealings with darkness. God is very clear that we are to keep away from evil and the trash of the world, yet we find that Christians are way to quick to build their house on top of a trash heap. I have been convicted about the amount of dirt I’ve allowed to mix in with my pure life. The movies I watch, though they’re not ‘bad,’ are still full of sin. The jokes I tell, though not ‘trashy,’ are still not pure. Why is it that sin can look so benign until we see it on the cross? It looks entertaining until we see Jesus’ blood flowing. It looks tasty until we are spewed from God’s mouth. It looks easy until we find our self addicted to it. It’s time we stopped compromising in the name of entertainment. It’s time we stop mixing our pure life with sin just because we need a rush. No wonder so many of us don’t know what God wants for us, we are to busy getting ‘mixed up’ with dirt. Confusion is not of God, darkness is not of God, sin is not of God, and a lot of my entertainment and life style is not of God. I need my feet washed. How about you? Is it time we wake up and stop trying to unite our pure life with our filthy lifestyle.

Matthew 6:24 “No one can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and wealth.”