The next week when the Kid’s Club met at Church, the Leader told them that he had looked at all their suggestions for food that they could fix for the Thanksgiving Feast, and one of the top suggestions was french fries!The Leader said that french fries were a great suggestion, and it would not be very hard to make them. The Leader said that they would buy bags of frozen french fries, salt and ketchup. They would make sure they had several cookie sheets available to put the french fries on so they could be baked in the oven.The Leader asked for volunteers who wanted to be in charge of the french fries, and he chose four of the kids to do the job: one would take the frozen french friesout of the bags and spread out the french fries on the cookie sheets before they went into the oven, one would lightly salt the french fries after they came out of the oven, one would use a spatula to take the hot french fries off the cookie sheets and put them into the serving bowl, and one would help serve the french fries as people came through the serving line. The Leader would put the cookie sheets into the oven and take them out, so that none of the kids would get burned by the oven. The Leader told the kids that their Bible lesson that night was going to be based on the french fries! He said that they were going to learn two things from the french fries.The first thing that they were learning from french fries has to do with the ketchup. The ketchup is red and covers the french fries when they are dunked in the ketchup. This reminds us of Jesus’ shed blood covering our sins when we believe in Him and ask for His forgiveness.
In the Bible in I John 1:7 it says:
But if we are living in the light, as God is in the light, then we have fellowship with each other, and the blood of Jesus His Son, cleanses us from all sin.
The second thing we learn has to do with putting salt on the french fries. One of the things that salt does is that it enhances the flavor of a food. The Bible compares believers in Jesus as the ‘salt of the earth’.
In the Bible in Matthew 5:13 Jesus says:
You are the salt of the earth. But what good is salt if it has lost its flavor? Can you make it salty again? It will be thrown out and trampled underfoot as worthless.
Jesus is telling us that there is much more to being a follower of Jesus than just asking Jesus to forgive your sins. After accepting Jesus into your heart, you are to spend the rest of the time He gives you on this earth being salt! This means that you are to influence or flavor the part of the world He has put you in. Being salt means that you show what Jesus is like to the people around you, through kindness and love.