Salt
Salt. It really is an amazing substance. All salt is is sodium and chlorine. Two substances when digested alone can be fatal, but when mixed have some amazing properties.
Salt was one of the world's first preservatives. As a preservative it was more valuable than gold. There were salt trade routes into Africa, which at the time had the richest civilizations due to the salt deposits there.
Salt is also a spice that we use even today in large amount in our food.
The chemical make-up of salt is such that it can change the physical properties of a substance when salt is added. If you add salt to water you not only raise it's boiling point but you also lower it's freezing point.
Salt.
You know, Jesus called us to be the Salt of the Earth (Matt 5:13-16). As Christians we are different from the rest of the world. We are dead to our old ways, the ways of the world, and are called to walk in a new way, the way of Christ.
Jesus didn't just use the term salt at random. We are to be like salt in that we are valuable and that we should change everything around us.
We are valuable not only to God, but to other Christians. We need to stick together to get the job done. We can't go about it alone, and no one is expendable. We all have worth whether it's leading the service on Sunday or it's simply sitting in the pew. We all have a place and our worth is priceless.
We are also like salt in that we should change our environment. Just as when salt is added to whether it can change the properties of that water, we as Christians, when sent into the world, should change the way in which that world thinks and behaves. Now me as a single salt crystal cannot achieve tons of change, but but I can achieve some change. Imagine what it would be like if the whole Church decided to be salty every day. Imagine the changes we could create in even a short amount of time.
This is my call to my fellow Christians to become salty. Stand out and make that change that is necessary.
Be bold. Be salty.
Salt was one of the world's first preservatives. As a preservative it was more valuable than gold. There were salt trade routes into Africa, which at the time had the richest civilizations due to the salt deposits there.
Salt is also a spice that we use even today in large amount in our food.
The chemical make-up of salt is such that it can change the physical properties of a substance when salt is added. If you add salt to water you not only raise it's boiling point but you also lower it's freezing point.
Salt.
You know, Jesus called us to be the Salt of the Earth (Matt 5:13-16). As Christians we are different from the rest of the world. We are dead to our old ways, the ways of the world, and are called to walk in a new way, the way of Christ.
Jesus didn't just use the term salt at random. We are to be like salt in that we are valuable and that we should change everything around us.
We are valuable not only to God, but to other Christians. We need to stick together to get the job done. We can't go about it alone, and no one is expendable. We all have worth whether it's leading the service on Sunday or it's simply sitting in the pew. We all have a place and our worth is priceless.
We are also like salt in that we should change our environment. Just as when salt is added to whether it can change the properties of that water, we as Christians, when sent into the world, should change the way in which that world thinks and behaves. Now me as a single salt crystal cannot achieve tons of change, but but I can achieve some change. Imagine what it would be like if the whole Church decided to be salty every day. Imagine the changes we could create in even a short amount of time.
This is my call to my fellow Christians to become salty. Stand out and make that change that is necessary.
Be bold. Be salty.
posted by theboythatis at 1:52 PM
2 Comments:
WOW....... hey that was worth the 10 day wait Allen. Very good post.
You shed some light on one of my favi passages in the bible. I love when you were talking about
being just one crystal. It's true that alone we cannot achieve much, but when we are united with our fellow brothers and sisters in Christ we can do great things for His kingdom.
Yeah, but I also want you to notice that even alone we can achieve something. Don't count yourself out just because there aren't hundreds of othere "salt crystals" helping you. As an individual you can still make an impact.
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