Pillars of Salt

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 by men. Matthew 6:13


In Genesis 19 God instructs Lot and his wife to leave Sodom without looking back. Lot’s wife defies God and God turns her into a pillar of salt – a monument I’m sure that reminded the people of His power and the consequence of sin. Jesus tells us to remember her in Luke 17:32 with regard to the day of judgment. She turned her back on God and headed in the wrong direction, to a city known for its wickedness.

Don't we set the same example when we live a life of sin -- when we go away from God instead of where he tells us? Don’t we too become pillars of salt, like the kind that's gotten wet -- hard, stiff, like a rock, impossible to come out of the shaker -- like the salt in the "Dead" Sea -- instead of the salt of the earth, that heals, preserves, and flavors the world, that easily flows out?