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Matthew 5: 13-16 “You are the salt of the earth, but if salt has lost its taste (its strength, its quality), how can its saltness be restored?? It is not good for anything any longer but to be thrown out and trodden underfoot by men.”

Salt is so important! Salt gives flavor to food. Ask anyone who has been forced to follow a low – salt diet and they will tell you how much they crave salt. Salt is a preservative. Before refrigeration, salt was routinely used to preserve meat and vegetables. For centuries, salt has been used to clean and heal wounds. Even today we still routinely clean wounds with normal saline, a sterile solution with the same concentration of salt as human plasma. In hospitals we routinely give drip fluids with 9% sodium chloride to maintain the body’s balance of salt. People need salt to live!  

Animals crave salt. Several years ago, we were at Mole Game Reserve watching a herd of elephants. Suddenly our guide requested that we move 50 meters away from the path. Why? Because the elephants had a natural salt lick and they were on their way to get the salt their bodies were crying for. Those elephants weren’t going to allow anything to stand in their way! When I was growing up on the farm, we routinely put out salt blocks for our cattle so that they could lick them. Animals need salt to live.

Dictionary.com says Words related to the idea of “salt of the earth” include proper, principled, righteous, noble, moralistic, trustworthy, renowned, illustrious, eminent, well – known, distinguished, prominent, esteemed, satisfying, worthwhile, admirable, reliable, excellent, desirable, and valuable.” WOW! In an earlier age, people in a community described those whom they admired as being “salt of the earth,” and they were referring to all these qualities.

But what can you do if salt has lost its taste, strength, and quality? If for some reason salt loses its saltiness, its essence, then it is just white crystals that are good for nothing. For us, if we abandon righteousness, if we compromise, we are like salt that has lost its flavor. Each of us can probably think of someone whom we admired who faltered at some point. The same thing can happen to us! But how can we remain salty?

To become the salt of the earth, we must worship the One who made it in the first place. When we worship, we take on the character of whatever it is that we worship. Only the all – wise and all – good God, our Maker and Creator, the One who loves us better than we can love ourselves, is worthy of worship and praise. This morning, “come, let us worship and bow down; let us kneel before the Lord our Maker. 7For He is our God, and we are the people of His pasture,
and the sheep [b]of His hand.” Psalm 95:6 – 7

PRAYER: Father God, this morning we bow before you. Change us into the image of Your likeness. Help us to truly be the salt of the earth, so that others will want to know you also. In the mighty and precious Name of Jesus. Amen.

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