Mis-Matched Flatwear

If you are ever at my house and you open up my utensil drawer, mismatched silverware flatwear will greet you.  Laying in their green untensil holder, they'll put on their best face, hoping you'll pick them.  You might have to rumage through the top few spoons to find your favorite.   You see, I own two different styles of butter knives and tablespoons, three different forks, and five styles of spoons.  And that doesn't even include a wide assortment of mismatched baby/toddler utensils.  Usually, I think nothing about my lower-class, mismatched flatware.  (I think at least one set is Oneida, afterall).  I even call it "silverware". 

However, this past Thanksgiving we ate dinner at a friend's house.  Just before eating,  she pulled out something peculiar.  A rectangular shaped wood box with red-velvet lining.  Imagine my surprise when upon peering inside I discovered real silverware.  All matching.  Even novelties such as serving spoons, jelly spoon, pickle fork, and meat forks matched all 12 coordinating place settings. It was a site to behold.

If my friend hadn't invited me over for dinnner and used her box of real silverware, I might have forgotten such items even existed.  I am used to my mismatched flatware.  I think nothing of it.  Digging 4 spoons down for my favorite is normal.

What if instead of flatware, it was my lifestyle?  What if I lived a cheap imitation life - void of the real deal?  I would think it normal.  I would need someone else to show me real LIFE existed.  Open their red velvet lined box life and let me experience the real deal.  Then I would know what had been missing in my life.

If you know Christ as your personal Lord and Savior, you have the real deal.  The red velvet lined box.  People living without knowledge of His love and goodness, living in sin or bad life circumstances, only know cheap imitation flatware.

Here is to letting others into our lives so they may experience the real deal.