Try Not To: Be Salty

”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 food for anything, except to be thrown out and trampled underfoot.” (Matthew 5:13 NIV)

In the early centuries, salt was used not only to flavor foods, it was used to preserve them as well. As Christians we should try not to be salty, rather, we should be the salt used to preserve God’s word. When we eat salty things, we become thirsty for water. We need to be preserving God’s word with so much joyous contentment that comes from the Father. This is so that people will see us and thirst for the living water.

Living Water

“On the last and greatest day of the festival, Jesus stood and said in a loud voice, “Let anyone who is thirsty come to me and drink. Whoever believes in me, as scripture has said, rivers of living water will flow from within them.” By this he meant the Spirit, whom those who believed in him were later to receive up to that time the Spirit had not been given, since Jesus had not yet been glorified.” (John 7:37-39 NIV) As we see here, the living water is His Spirit that lives in and flows through us. We need to try not to be salty. Instead we should be preserving God’s word and quenching people’s eternal thirst with His Spirit.

In Mark 9:50, Jesus tells us Christian’s to “Have salt among yourselves, and be at peace with each other.” In order to be the salt of the earth and preserve His word, we much first encourage one another and preserve His word among ourselves. We must first fill each other’s cups and be overflowing with His Spirit. So that we can share with the world and not run dry. Try to be a preservative!