“You are the salt of the earth; but if the salt loses its flavor, how shall it be seasoned? It is then good for nothing but to be thrown out and trampled underfoot by men.” – Matthew 5:13
Have you ever really thought about salt?
*(For those of you thrown off by my metaphors: One grain of salt = you. A bunch of grains of salt = you and other Christians. The saltshaker = the church. Food = the world. Grains of rice = people in the church who aren’t quite like us. The cook = God, and so on.)
It tastes awful.
By itself, one grain of salt is basically useless.
But when it gets out of the saltshaker,
And gets put together with a bunch of other grains of salt,
It makes everything taste better.
Even then, it must be rightly applied, or else the food will be worse off than it was before.
But it must be used, or else it can’t accomplish anything worthwhile.
Even in the saltshaker, there needs to be some grains of rice too, or else it will all clump together, and be unfit for use. (It’s true – look it up!)
Some say certain kinds of salt are better than others, but in reality they all have the same end effect.
In the grand scope of things, a grain of salt is pretty small.
Even the food it seasons is pretty small.
But when the Cook is in control, it does great things,
And it’s definitely one of the Cook’s favorite seasonings, even though it is so small.
You don’t notice it all the time,
But you sure do notice when it’s missing.
When the salt loses what makes it salt, it is useless.
Salt gives flavor.
Salt preserves.
Salt cleanses and heals.
But here’s my favorite part: Salt has no heat of its own, yet it melts ice.
Go be salt.
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