You are the salt of the earth

15 Jan 2012 

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 underfoot. Matthew 5:13

Salt -Sodium chloride is a rich mineral, used as a seasoning for food as stated in the Bible as:

•        “Can flavorless food be eaten without salt? and offerings.” Job 6:6   

•     Season all your grain offerings with salt. Do not leave the salt of the covenant of your God out of your grain offerings; add salt to all your offerings.” Lev. 2:13

•    “You are to offer them before the LORD, and the priests are to sprinkle salt on them and sacrifice them as a burnt offering to the LORD.” Ezek. 43:24).

As a preservative, salt was symbolic of covenants (pledge)

•          “It is an everlasting covenant of salt before the LORD for both you and your offspring.” Num. 18:19;

•          “Don’t you know that the LORD, the God of Israel, has given the kingship of Israel to David and his descendants forever by a covenant of salt?  2 Chron. 13:5.

         Salt adds the flavor in food.

Salt is the cheapest and most wanted ingredient at home. Salt is a low value commodity , yet without Salt , food looses its taste.  Today, the world is in need of the effects of salt, to enhance and compliment whatever it comes into contact with. It can transform the food and its taste.( you and your  personality  traits ). Salt is often added to food to provide zest and enhanced flavor and changes bland food delicious.

God has intended to use you as salt in this wicked society to spread peace and happiness, wherever you are.  Add flavor to your lifeand to the community in which you live. Spread the aroma of the food in which required Salt in added. So only a little bit to be to be added to be perfect in all.

         Salt is a preservative. 

Salt has been used to cure food which can be preserved for future use .Salt has long been a preservative for mankind and  it acts as a preservative.

We( Christian) have to act as a preserving agent in a world, which has a bent toward moral decay. Just as salt stings, the personality traits of a good  Christian should be a role model to the world.  When salt is rubbed in a wound it  is painful, but  it prevents infection.

         Salt has healing properties.  

It kills most germs on contact and  very effective in cleansing a wound so it can heal.  Salt is also a cleanser (from germs...spiritually speaking, from sins). Salt is often in medicines, used as a wound sterilizer and germ killer. By analogy, we can tell them of the Great One Who has cleansed us from our fatal sin-sickness by His wounds

         survival of living  
However, if salt loses it's flavor, then it becomes worthless and is simply

   thrown away .And too much salt in unpalatable,  and too little wont do the

   work.  We need a perfect balance between extremities. Salt  gives life and the

   message of salvation give eternal life.

As a person saved and washed in His blood  we have an committed duty to this world as  salt.

Think and act accordingly.



Salt is good, but if the salt loses its flavor, how will you season it? 
Have salt in yourselves, and have peace with one another.”Mark9:50

God bless