Be Salt

You are the salt of the earth; but if salt has lost its taste, how can its saltiness be restored? It is no longer good for anything but is thrown out and trampled underfoot. -Matthew 5:13-14 (NIV)

I am reminded of what author and preacher Bill Hybels says about salt in his book, Becoming a Contagious Christian: it creates thirst, it enhances flavor, and it preserves. This is helpful in trying to understand this teaching of Jesus in Matthew 5.

We are supposed to be salt. We are supposed to live our lives for Jesus in such a way that they would create a thirst in the lives of those we touch. We are supposed to enhance the lives of others with whom we come in contact and we are supposed to live in such a way that they would see how a relationship with Christ preserves a person from being completely destroyed by sin.

How are you like salt? Does your faith create thirst, enhance flavor, and preserve?

May God grant you the grace to have a faith that creates a thirst in others, enhances the flavor of the lives you touch, and preserves lives from decay.




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