Vinegar and Oil

Mixed

Vinegar and oil, mixed together and perhaps spiced up with some favorite seasonings, make a delicious concoction known as salad dressing. Vinegar has a lot of personality. It’s tangy and tart, vibrant, and loud. Oil is delightfully smooth. It’s soft and restful. It coaxes, moves, and persuades. It may be quieter, but its personality is perhaps even stronger, more influential, versatile, and purposeful.

Coming Together

How do oil and vinegar come together so smoothly? They don’t. They’re a challenge to draw together. Pour a couple of tablespoons of vinegar in a jar of oil and watch them immediately separate. They don’t mesh well. They resist each other. They react in each other’s company.

But have you ever noticed that neutral things always carry less passion. Take a love story for example, we all know that the heroine is not going to end up with the man that gets next to no reaction out of her. Rather, she’ll often end up with the man that elicits the strongest reaction from her: love or frustration.

Perhaps this too is true of oil and vinegar.

How do you blend them?

If oil and vinegar work together so well but resist each other so strongly, what can the solution be? Blend them. Under high intensity or pressure, an immersion blender, or other ingredients, they combine into the smoothest, richest concoction. Under challenges and struggles, oil and vinegar settle to a new, unique, and purposeful flavor.

Application

Okay… but how does this apply to me? Who in your life is the oil and vinegar? Who is God calling you to blend with? What can the outcome possibly be? What are the risks? The lies?

Will you lose your identity. Your unique flavor. Will you break a relationship? Consider all the angles, and then jump!