Coke in my mascara

For those of you who don’t know, if your mascara gets clumpy, you can simply add some Coke into the tube and it will be back in mint condition. However, the word “simply” seems to evade the idea of actually getting the coke from the can into the small mascara tube. How exactly does one get the Coke in there? It seems to call for a sticky situation. Mascara tubes were just not made for pouring Coke into them.

In order to make the process more efficient, one would need a “mediator,” if you will, between the Coke can and the mascara tube: a funnel, or maybe an eyedropper. With the use of such a tool, the Coke is easily moved from the can into the tube. A process seemingly impossible is made possible.

Now imagine yourself as the mascara tube. Your life gets “gunky” and seems to have become less than perfect, less than what you are meant to be. We need something to smoothen us out again and remove the impurities. We are in need of something to bring us back to perfection. Or in other words, we need some Coke. Our Coke is God. But how do we go about getting this omniscient, omnipresent, sovereign, all-powerful God in us? Our sinful nature separates us from God and makes the task of getting Him in us impossible without some kind of assistance. We need a mediator between God and us.

So what is our funnel? What is our eyedropper? This is where Jesus comes in, our perfect mediator. He makes this seemingly impossible task of getting God in us, possible. Jesus tore the curtain separating us from God; he took away the restraints of the Coke can and the narrow mascara tube. He is the means of creating a personal relationship with God.

I don’t mean to reduce God to a sugary, less than satisfying beverage, or Jesus to an eternally misplaced kitchen gadget. But it is amazing to think that through Jesus, we are given new life. We are restored to mascara like the day it is opened, when it makes our eyelashes look like advertisements. Attempting to know and have a relationship with God without Jesus as our mediator proves an impossible feat. We need Jesus who suffered like us, lived among us, and prays for us, to bring us to God and God to us.