Salt....
One of my daughters has taken me to a salt shop in her town...what a fun experience..I didn't realize that there were so many salts, colors, tastes, uses..it changes the taste of food, preserves it, or it can kill the taste...you can cook on slabs of it..encase food with it...so many ways to use it...
In the Old Testament, it was used with the offerings at the temple, or land was cursed with it and became barren..When we lived in Nevada, we drove by a barren area many times, the 40 mile desert....white with alkaline salts...the pioneers dreaded this crossing as there was no water except on both ends, very little vegetation, hot, dry and suffocatingly dusty...
As Christians we are called the "salt of the earth"... To help others taste and see the the Lord is good? To help preserve life? And we come in all flavors?
Can be used in a multitude of ways? Many types? Purified in various ways?
Mined all over the world? Valued?
Lots of object lessons with salt...
But the thing to remember is not to lose it saltiness and become useless...ready for trampling underfoot..a wasteland..
I want to continue to be useful, at ready for helping to make life more "tastey" to those around me...
Thank YOU for salt, a simple little ingredient which can change the recipe of life...
Matthew 5:13 “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 good for anything, except to be thrown out and trampled underfoot.
"preserve it from corruption, to season its insipidity, to freshen and sweeten it." Http://biblehub.com/matthew/5-13.htm
Leviticus 2:13 Season all your grain offerings with salt. Do not leave the salt of the covenant of your God out of your grain offerings; add salt to all your offerings.
Colossians 4:6 Let your conversation be always full of grace, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how to answer everyone.
James 3:11-12 Can both fresh water and salt water flow from the same spring? My brothers and sisters, can a fig tree bear olives, or a grapevine bear figs? Neither can a salt spring produce fresh water.
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