There is a local bistro that my wife and I love to go. Although food is great and they have this hot sauce made of guava, chipotle and other spices that it is awesome. It brings their great food to awesomeness level.

In some cultures spices, specially salt, are needed just to make certain foods eatable as well as to keep it from spoiling. thus is the power of spices, specially salt, it takes the basic, the mundane and even the un-eatable and makes it awesome.

Jesus told His followers, meaning us… that those who follow him are to be like salt. And He warns us that if we, as salt, lose our taste, we loose our usefulness and effectiveness (see Matt. 5:13 or Luke 14:34-35). Very strong stuff.

In other words, following the same metaphor, our lifestyle has to be such that has to have the preserving, transforming and healing properties of the salt.  Are we? is it?

I think that our saltiness as believers start with trusting God with all our hearts, mind and salt. See for example Proverbs 3: 5-6:

Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding.

In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths.

To be able to be and do what Christ requires of us we have to have his wisdom. Without it we are destine to fail big time.
For example, if we are to love our neighbors as we want God to love us, how can we effectively do that if we are not transformed first and walking in God’s wisdom?
And say that we live in a society that does not tolerate christians. We need God to guide us in letting our light shine and be a salt there. It takes a great deal of patience, prayer and wisdom to rightly relate to those who don’t want us around.

It is your saltiness as believers transforming everything it touches and making it better?

 

 

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