Dead Sea, Israel, En Boqeq by xta11
Good morning, beloved!
This is one of the few mornings where I sit ready to start typing away and my brain and the typing are not matching up. Don’t give up on me yet, yesterday was a doctor day for Joshua. We walked away with one x-ray, med refills,adjustments to his foot inserts and a diagnosis, hopefully, for his fingers. Noah was also scheduled for his surgery at the end of the month. God, tho, is teaching me to walk in the moment. What do I mean? I can only do what is in front of me. God takes a step and I prayerfully follow in His steps. (not perfectly) So after a lovely lunch date with my hubby, we came home to some happy children ready for the movie Brave.
So gaze upon the truth of God’s Word. Let’s grab God’s hand and ask Him to show us , teach us and lead us. Let’s begin with Matthew 5:13
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.
Jesus talked about Christians as salt two other times in the NT. This is a metaphor (remember high school?) A figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable.
Salt covered stones at Dead Sea by xta11
34 Salt is good [an excellent thing], but if salt has lost its strength and has become saltless (insipid, flat), how shall its saltness be restored?
35 It is fit neither for the land nor for the manure heap; men throw it away. He who has ears to hear, let him listen and consider and comprehend by hearing!
Salt covered stones at Dead Sea by xta11
49 For everyone shall be salted with fire.
50 Salt is good (beneficial), but if salt has lost its saltness, how will you restore [the saltness to] it? Have salt within yourselves, and be at peace and live in harmony with one another.
Salt is an excellent thing.
We are the salt of the earth. Have salt within yourselves. Be at peace. Live in harmony.
Yet if salt loses its saltness…not good for anything. Cannot be restored. Not for land. Not for the manure heap. Throw it away.
What is Jesus talking about? Let’s look at some information on salt.
1) salt with which food is seasoned and sacrifices are sprinkled
2) those kinds of saline matter used to fertilise arable land
3) salt is a symbol of lasting concord, because it protects food from putrefaction and preserves it unchanged. Accordingly, in the solemn ratification of compacts, the orientals were, and are to this day, accustomed to partake of salt together
4) wisdom and grace exhibited in speech
In my encyclopedia searches, finding good references for the information I’ve spent a little more time, ahem, then I should. So, I need to sign off for the moment. I’m going to come back lata. 😉
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