Salty

SCRIPTURE: 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.  Matthew 5:13 NIV

THOUGHT: Taken literally, we are supposed to be what makes life taste good – or not, as the case may be. Have you really stopped to think about how your God-given purpose is to make life taste good for others? To spark up the conversation with perspective, depth and truth. To help preserve what is good and necessary for life. And, obviously, to master the difference between sprinkling and pouring and when too much will kill and too little will be bland? Jesus wasn’t ever just pulling metaphors from thin air; he was trying to get his listeners to understand deep spiritual truth by using common everyday examples.

Try eating food without salt today, and see if it helps your spiritual life get a little more salty.

PRAYER: How bland our food would be without salt, Lord. You’ve asked us to feed others – stir up our saltiness so what we offer might leave others hungry and thirsty for more of what makes life good.

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