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“You are the salt for the Land. But if salt becomes tasteless, how can it be made salty again? It is no longer good for anything except being thrown out for people to trample on.”  Matthew 5:13 CJB

How important is this verse to the life of a believer of Yeshua the Messiah? It could be one of or is the most important verse for living that there is in God’s Word.

Let me tell you why I think that previous statement is true. Webster’s Dictionary definition of salt: “to season or preserve; an ingredient that gives savor, piquancy (palatable), flavor, or zest; full of life, vigor, or personality, to treat, provide, or season; to enrich; to cure.” What kind of world would it be if believers knew and accepted the responsibility of being the salt?

God established a “covenant of salt” in Numbers 18:19, which is applied to King David and his descendants (the Messiah and his followers-who are the righteous remnant). Did you know there was such a covenant?

Think about all the things you know that Adonai wants you to be and do. If salt was added to that, how much more flavorful and palatable would it be? Even something as basic as parenting, would some salt enhance your effectiveness? God knew what salt was before Webster! He knew how amazing the compound was that He created, also knowing what an impact it would make if we understood its meaning. The problem comes with not knowing how vital salt is to life.

Neither people nor animals can live without salt. There are many diseases that can be prevented and cured with salt-ever sprain your ankle? Soaking your foot in Epsom Salts will greatly help the soreness. Have you ever had a sore throat and gargled in warm salt water (home remedy)? Helps, doesn’t it?

The negative side of salt is… it can also kill. Put a pile of salt on a weed and see what happens. The verse says “sprinkle”, please make sure you do not dump it on people! Too much salt will make you choke for sure!

If you read Matthew 5:13 again you will see what happens if salt becomes watered down. Do you water down the salt that God has created you to be? How do you water down your saltiness? Keeping it in the shaker, filling yourself with things that will suck your saltiness away (have you ever over salted something and added a potato to soak up the excess salt?), and things that corrupt your life will make your salt lose its saltiness. Can you name things in your life that fit those categories? If you can, then, rid yourself of them right away. If not, then, get to sprinkling!

This world is dying. It needs salt. You are it-God said so! Read the definition of salt again and make a list of the people, places, and things that you can salt this week! Have you ever tasted a potato that has not had any salt on it? Yuck! Could the lack of salt be why the “spiritual” things you try to do are not as effective as you would like… or not effective at all?

I take you back to the statement I made at the beginning and I stand firm on it, “It could be one of, or is the most important verse for living that there is in God’s Word”. Do you agree? If so, start sprinkling yourself around today!

Sprinkling everywhere…
Kathy