You are the salt of the earth;but if salt has lost its taste how can it’s saltiness be restored?
Matt5:13We all know salt is used for preserving meats, for seasoning food and for medicinal purpose. We use with such regularity that we easily forget how valuable salt is. Salt was seen as a valuable commodity due to it’s many uses-and Jesus was well aware of the fact.
That is why Jesus called his disciples the salt of the earth. It conveys a powerful lesson about how God’s people are to live their lives today. Our lives should be like a salt that enhance the flavor to any food that we prepare. In our daily lives, we might encounter with many situation, but we must endure till the end.
Salt represent preservative, so it shows the quality of lasting endurance. God uses the term salt to describe His enduring covenant with His people (Number 18:19).It is this same endurance that God’s people are to demonstrate(Matt24:13).
Based on its color and it’s ability to preserve food, salt came to symbolize purity, it represent the purity that Christian are to attain. This purity comes from not living too closely tied to the world (James 1:27) but by living in accordance with God’s commandments(Rev22:14).
As physical salt makes us thirsty, we should recognize our spiritual hunger and thirst for righteousness (Matt 5:6) What if salt looses it’s saltiness? We know something is wrong, if it looses it’s saltiness.
Basically, the only way this can happen is, to become mixed with another element to the extent that is made ineffective. If that happens, we can no longer preserve, purify or season the world because we will have the same need of salt as they do. Such is useless to both for God and human. Jesus Christ wants our lives to enhance the experiences of others around us in the same way that salt enhances a food.
As God’s people we must not lose the purity or cease to add flavor to the lives of others. We are to be seasoning agent in the world. This applies to the fact that without God, life become dull and bland, it become useless and trample with feet.
So we are to set an example, to spread God’s message of good news through out the world as a testimony to all the nations(Matt24:14) Lord make our life be a blessing to others to be a good salt that enhance the flavor to whom we encounter with. In Jesus name 🙏
Sol.Api