Salt and Light

Have you ever been to a restaraunt with my wife that serves french fries. It's so funny, one of the first things she will do is taste the french fries and see if they are salted. She loves her salt on her french fries and can't live without it. It's a taste, not a feel. Salt cannot be faked, if there was salt on the fries that had no taste it would be a lot like that sandwich you eat at the beach. You know, the one that you bite down on and feel the grains of sand crunching as you chew and then swallow. I can't imagine there being much worse things than grains of salt that are not salty.
Ofcourse through the years salt has had it's negative uses as well. THousands of years ago salt was used mostly to preserve things. It was primarily a preservative and rarely an addition to a meal at all. But, in those days it was also used in wars. If an army was able to break into a camp, or settlement and tear down the homes, burn the village and rob the people they would then walk out into their crops and pour salt all over them and stomp it into the ground. This made sure there was no chance of those crops recovering from having been torn down. Salt also does that, so keep that in mind.
In Matthew 5:13 Jesus says, " You are the salt of the earth. But if the salt loses its saltiness, how can it be made salty again? It is no longer good for anything, except to be thrown out and trampled by men."
THere again, salt without flavor is no longer salt. You wouldn't use it, you wouldn't want it in your home. It would not longer be useful for anything except what we talked about above for killing crops and grass.
It's the same way with Christians, once we start to lose our saltiness we are seemingly flavorless. We are useless to the church and the spread of the Gospel. We are then actually in the same form helping the enemy out and being used by Satan to stop growth. We are simply in the way of progress.
How do we lose our saltiness? By neglecting our daily devotion times with GOd, by not attending church, by becoming fleshly and worldly. By chasing pleasures of the world rather than God's satisfaction in our lives. By doing these things, we transform ourselves just like salt, into something that is only used for negative results. And someone in that position is not someone that God can use.
So keep your saltiness, stay in daily contact with God and grow to be used to flavor teh world, rather than to tear down the church.
Thanks for reading and have a great day!