SALT OF THE EARTH

IS TASTELESS FOOD EATEN WITHOUT SALT, OR IS THERE FLAVOR IN THE WHITE OF AN EGG? [Job 6:6]

Let's put it this way. Would you rather eat salt or the white of an egg? 

Tasteless -- without flavor; useless

You are the salt of the earth. But if the salt loses its saltiness, how can it be made salty again? It is no longer good for anything, except to be thrown out and trampled by men. [Matthew 5:13]

We are the salt of the earth, but do you really think you are remaining salty?


SALT PURIFIES. Acts and words. Blameless. Christ-like. Nowadays, sometimes we are carried by the rhythm of the world. It depends on how you purify yourself from abstaining to go with the flow.

SALT HEALS. They say salt heals, which is truly correct, as far as I can remember it has antiseptic effects when we put it into wounds. It hurts when we put some salt to our wounds, it is because the longer we endure the pain, the faster we heal. Sinning makes us un-salty. It makes us useless. When we are corrected or when we have criticisms, we don't actually accept them for a matter of seconds. It breaks us apart when we have them. But when we learn to accept them, it makes us better. 


SALT PRESERVES. In our History class, when I was in junior year, I learned that Egyptians used natron(salt) to preserve the mummies. To preserve the dead. The only difference is that, we live to be preserved. Preserving our outlook with life. Preserving the foundations we have in order to grow better in Christ.


SALT INTENSIFIES HEAT. In cooking pasta, I always try to figure out why my mom puts salt while boiling it. Now I know!! Lol, it intensifies the heat. When we are with fellow salts of the earth, we intensify the heat that we have. We burn for the great cause God has planned for us. 

Remaining salty is the hardest part of being a Christian. It doesn't mean that if we are salty enough that we have these characteristics, we have to stay in the salt shaker. We have to show and declare to the world that we are out of the salt shaker, to step out and let others know that our God through being salt of the earth.


Thinking Still,
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