It has been a good day, Father, but I am weary. I have taken time to speak with and listen to You but have not written for the last couple of days. Bless our time together, may it be at time for me to draw closer to You. Amen.
Matthew 5:13 (<<click the green)
Salt can bring to mind all kinds of connotations. It’s a seasoning. It’s a preservative. Some idioms involving salt are “rubbing salt into a wound”, meaning to make someone’s bad situation even worse. We can take someone’s advice with a “grain of salt”, insinuating that the advice is taken with a certain amount of skepticism. But when it comes right down to it, as a follower Christ am I worth my salt? Am I deserving of my “wages” as a believer?
In the footnotes of the Amplified Bibles translation of this passage, it states, “In ancient times salt was often used as a preservative. Similarly, followers of Christ are to preserve both the gospel message and Christian values in the secular world.”
I have devoted myself to this calling…and I am not speaking of my calling as a pastor. When I accepted Christ’s offering of forgiveness for my sins I also accepted the calling of Jesus’ Great Commission found in Matthew 28:19-20,
“Therefore, go and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. Teach these new disciples to obey all the commands I have given you. And be sure of this: I am with you always, even to the end of the age.”
Every follower of Christ is called to share the Good News of Jesus – that’s what the Gospel is. The Good News is the fact that Jesus freely gave of himself to take the punishment for the sins that I (that we all) have committed. He paid for our sins with his very life and offers us freedom from those sins. We are saved out of our lostness so that we can share our stories with others who are lost – to show them the way to the Savior.
So, Lord, when You say that I am the “salt of the earth” am I busy as I should be about preserving the truth of the Gospel message? Do I live out the values that You have set into place in the world in which I live each and every day? I strive to do that but I also know that I can do so much more. Lord, enable me to be the salt You need where and when You need it. Amen.
Oct 15th, Sun, 7:41 pm
