Day 270 – Use the salt before you lose the saltiness.
Today’s Reading: Mark 7 – 9
Mark 9:50 “Salt is good, but if the salt has lost its saltiness, how will you make it salty again? Have salt in yourselves, and be at peace with one another.”
Anyone that knows me well enough knows I love salt; I don’t just like it, I love it, and like the country song goes, “I want some more of it.” To me salt makes just about everything better, including melons and ice, that’s right, plain ole’ ice and salt.
Yesterday, I was having lunch with a friend that I only get to see every once and a blue moon since she lives in another country. We received our chips and then the salsa, and I began to pour salt into my salsa to then stir it with a chip. She grabbed the salt and exclaimed “Kristen”. I laughed, and then said, it’s the best salsa ever but I have to first add my salt.
Jesus said, salt is good, but if it loses its saltiness what good is it for. He was speaking of the Fire of faith that burns in your soul. If we have faith but lose the fire to proclaim daily what good is our faith? Faith on its own is good, but if it isn’t used it’s worthless.
We can’t make salt salty again and we may never have the same opportunity twice to share faith with a family member or friend. Our faith is trust in God, it’s believing the miracle may happen but trusting Him still if it doesn’t. It’s taking every opportunity to live out our faith instead of cowering behind the thoughts and opinions of others. It’s loving our enemy, our neighbor, the orphan, the widow, our past and our future. It’s knowing that God has a plan for you far greater than our ideas. This faith is the essence of salt. We don’t need to lose it, we need to use it. Let’s go and enjoy being Salt together.
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