Melted Popsicle

 

A week ago, my wife asked for a Popsicle out of our freezer.  I was more than glad to oblige because I took advantage of the request.  You see, my wife doesn’t like orange Popsicles (because they remind her of a childhood medicine taste).  So, I got her a grape Popsicle, and I got myself an orange Popsicle.  When I opened the box, there were only three left, so I laid the leftover cherry Popsicle on the counter to put back into the freezer after I had disposed of the empty box.  But I got distracted taking the grape Popsicle to my wife and eating the orange Popsicle for myself.  I didn’t see the cherry Popsicle on the counter until the next morning.  Too late.  It looked pitiful lying there all melted inside of the plastic wrapper with the stick floating on the liquid.  It reminded me of an unplugged Christmas yard inflatable decoration.  The Popsicle just lost all of its appeal.  It’s like a Christian who doesn’t act like a Christian.  They just lose all of their appeal.  Jesus spoke of useless salt and useless Christians in the Sermon on the Mount: Matthew 5:13, “Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be salted? it is thenceforth good for nothing, but to be cast out, and to be trodden under foot of men.”  Unchristianlike Christians are useless.  They are just about as useless as a Popsicle laying on the counter all night long.  Just throw it away!  Hey, did you learn a lesson?  Then make a change today.