You are THE SALT OF THE EARTH

"You are the SALT OF THE EARTH." Matthew 5:13a


“Salt is the only mineral that people eat -- [the only edible rock]. Farmers put salt licks in the fields for their cows. Every cell in our body is bathed in a salt solution. The body will not function properly unless the ratio of salt to water is maintained in the bloodstream; they give you a saline solution in the hospital when you are a patient, to keep your body in balance.” *

All the way back to Leviticus God commands the use of salt. In Leviticus 2:13 Moses tells the people to “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.” God tells Ezekiel in Ezekiel 43:24 to sprinkle salt on all the goats, bulls and rams when sacrificing them to the Lord. Jesus now tells us, as Christians, to BE the salt of the earth.

David, in Psalm 119 tells us to “taste and see that the Lord is good.” And Peter tells God’s elect, strangers in the world, in 1 Peter 2:2, “Like newborn babies, crave pure spiritual milk, so that by it you may grow up in your salvation, now that you have tasted that the Lord is good.”

What do we as Christians taste to see that it is good?

We, the salt of the earth, taste THE ROCK and see that HE is good, which keeps us tasting THE ROCK, which keeps us being the salt of the earth.



The salt tastes THE ROCK to become salt, again and again.


*Quote taken from http://www.helium.com/items/1386462-origin-and-meaning-of-salt-of-the-earth