More Salt, Please

Today's Verse:

Salt is good: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be seasoned? ~Luke 14:34 

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If you are like me, you like to eat food that is well seasoned. One of my preacher friends tends to pour a considerable amount of salt on his food. The food could be very balanced, in my opinion, in salt and flavor content, but he will still add more salt to enhance the flavor. His motto at every meal is, “More salt, please.” This morning, there is a cry for “more salt, please!” That is, for more Christians to be a permeating influence for Christ wherever God has placed them. 

There is the popularity of salt. 

Salt is good. We need salt in our diet. Salt transforms what would otherwise be bland and tasteless to that which is tasty and delicious. Salt is good for snow-covered roads. Salt helps to make driving over snow less slippery. Salt is good as a preservative. Until refrigeration was invented, people salted their meats to preserve them. Salt helps to slow down the aging and corruption process in meat. There is much in our daily life where salt is good for. Salt is a necessity for life. In a similar way, this world is vitally in need of Christians as the salt of the earth. Take away the Christian, and there is no salt, no influence, and no testimony for the Lord. 

There is the permeation of salt. 

Salt permeates the substance it has been poured upon. It changes something bland into something tasty. Imagine hamburgers and fries without salt. Imagine a good dish of pasta without salt. Salt enhances flavor through the permeation process. Christians are to permeate society just as salt permeates food. We are to bring enhancement and “flavor” into the lives of the people God has placed around us. 

There is the pollution of salt. 

Jesus spoke about salt that has lost its savor. How does salt lose its flavor? This occurs when it is commingled with other elements. The other elements dilute the impact of salt. The other elements can sometimes pollute the salt. Thus, polluted or diluted salt loses its savor and seasoning effect. Jesus says, “It is neither fit for the land, nor yet for the dunghill.” In other words, it has become good for nothing. It is to be cast out. When the testimony of a Christian has been polluted by sin, his effectiveness for Christ is lessened and even defeated. 

There is the propaganda of salt. 

Let’s spread the salt! Let’s pass the salt around! Let’s touch everyone we are in contact with using the salt of our lives. Let’s add salt by being encouragers. Let’s add salt by doing deeds of kindness. Let’s add salt by passing out tracts and sharing our faith. Let’s add salt by helping to pray for and support missionaries on foreign soil. Let’s add salt by increasing our involvement in our community. Let’s get the salt in as many places as we can. 

How effective is your salt? Is your salt enhancing the lives of others? Perhaps the cry of the people around us is, “More salt, please!” Determine today to be a salty Christian. 

Have a salt-permeating God Morning! 

Bible Reading Schedule: Acts 1-3

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