Salt of the Earth

God gave us many titles in the bible..
We're called princes, God's own children, More than conquerors,

But theres also another one that the casual reader will get confused about.
God called us the SALT of the earth.

Why salt?
Go eat a singple piece of potato chips now..

Dont you just feel like eating another?
And another?
And another?

Theres just something about the chips that makes us want to come back for more..

Salt adds the flavour to the chips, makes us crave for more and more chips, and all the while it makes us more and more thirsty..

Similarly if we have God within us, people wont be able to get enough..
People will just keep coming back for more, and the more they come, the thirstier theyll be for the word of the Lord..
We are called to create a thirst in this world, and Jesus brings out this flavour in us because we are the salt that is on the chips. Without the salt the entire potato chip will be bland.
Without the salt food will be bland.

This flavour can be found in Matthew 4:18-22
(the calling of the first disciples)
Jesus said, come follow me. AT ONCE they left their nets and followed him..

Did they question Jesus? No..
They left at once..
Because the flavour of God was so powerful in Jesus that they just followed him immediately..
There was just something about Jesus that drew them to him, attracted them to him.

Salt was also of great value during Jesus' time.. =D

And lastly, salt preserves.
Put salt on meat, and it can last for a long more time without getting spoilt.
Similarly the world is decaying slowly.. but as salt, we can make it better than before..
We can preserve it, we can add flavour to it to make it more flavourful than before.
We can improve the world.
However, a single grain of salt can only preserve so much, and add so much flavour..
We have to stand united in order to preserve a whole piece of meat, the whole world.
We have to work together to see breakthroughs and continue to work in faith..

And lastly, we have to come into contact on order to have any effect on the lives of others..
We have to work up the effort to go up to people and try to add flavour in their lives.
If we sit back and relax nothing would happen. We'd just be like salt sitting in a jar, on display.

*One last note*
A mum told her little girl that God was big..
"How big?" Inquired the little girl..
"Bigger than the world," Answered the mother..

two days later, the little girl went up to her mother..
"Mum, my teacher told us today that God lives in mi."
"Yes thats right." The mother answered..
"But if he is so big that hes bigger than the world, and if he lives in mi, shouldnt we be able to see God coming out of us? Flowing out of us?"

We should indeed see God coming out of us..
The question is.. why do we prevent that from happening?

-J-