March 19th, 2008 
Dana Fisher …but whoever drinks the water I give him will never thirst. – John 4:14
I love salt water taffy! One minute you’re chewing on cinnamon, the next mint chocolate. Any flavor you can imagine probably exists as a piece of salt water taffy somewhere. One of the best and worst parts is how chewy and sticky it really is. It gets stuck so far down in your teeth you taste it for hours.
As I grabbed a piece from the candy jar at the pet store the other day it got me thinking; I’m just like this little piece of taffy. In the scope of things this little piece of taffy is insignificant. If it fell on the ground, or got dirty and was unusable we’d throw it away. We get dirty every day with sins we don’t even realize we commit. Yet Jesus comes along and cleans us off, gives us a purpose, and sets us on our way. In Psalm 51:7 David cries out to God for the sins he has committed. “wash me, and I will be whiter than snow”.
If you’ve ever left a piece of taffy out for an extended period of time you know what happens. As the air gets to it, it dries out and becomes brittle. If you dropped it, or smashed it with something it would splinter into hundreds of tiny pieces. In John 4 as Jesus is sitting by this well He offers a sinner living water. The dirtiest of dirty people, she comes to the well in the heat of the day when no one is around. She’s had 5 husbands, and lives with another man, yet living water is hers if she asks.
Take that little piece of dried out taffy and pour water on it. Take your hands and start pushing on it. Roll it over in the water as your pry and bend and mold it. The water seeps back in and slowly but surely that little piece of brittle taffy takes on new life. It’s moldable again.
When I was little my dad used to take me to a baseball card store that sold old packs of baseball cards. Packs from the 70’s and 80’s that never got opened. I remember going in and buying a pack that came with a piece of gum. I crunched down on it and it nearly disintegrated in my mouth. To be honest, it was disgusting. I kept chewing and before long I had a usable piece of gum.
I struggle sometimes with being stale. I’m saved, I pray every day, I rely on God to guide me in everything and yet sometimes I get so busy or so down that I forget to read the Word. When I get stale and a trial comes I’m libel to be smashed to pieces. I’m dried up and ripe for the pickin. When we read the Word the living water is poured over us and it allows God to mold us again. We are bendable and trials may stretch us thin but we won’t break.
To date there are an estimated 6 billion people on earth. To this world you and I are insignificant. We’re like little pieces of taffy. If we get dirty we just get tossed away. But to Jesus we are precious, each and every one. And if we get stale He’s there when we ask, to pour out living water and make you the salt of the earth. He’ll make you pliable and it may not be comfortable at first but the blessings you receive will be much greater as He makes you into a usable vessel.
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