“You are the salt of the earth, but if salt has lost its taste, how shall its saltiness be restored? It is no longer good for anything except to be thrown out and trampled under people’s feet.”
We sometimes refer to people that we think a lot of as “the salt of the earth.” Here Jesus called us “the salt of the earth.” We just need to act like it, or we will become useless and fruitless. This is not a statement of whether or not we are saved; rather it is a statement of our usefulness in His work. So, the question is, are you salty? Let me show you what I mean. Do you make the most of your fellowship in your church? Do you love your fellow church members – really love them!? Do you seriously get along with them, to loosely quote Paul, do you “bear with them”? Do you pray for them? (Really, do you pray for them?) Do you make the most of your relationships in your family? Do you really love them? Do you pray for them? Do you accept them as they are? (Jesus doesn’t make allowance for personality differences. Just saying!) Do you make the most of your relationships with people who are involved in your daily life? How are your relationships with people where you work, where you shop, where you play, etc.? Do they realize that you are a Christian, not by what you say but by the way you act, by the way that you treat them? When the opportunity arises do you share your faith with them? Keep in mind that you have already shown them what it means to be a Christian by the way you act, and by what you say? Again, do you love them? What I have shared with you here are some of the familiar things that we struggle with in “being salty.” I think that you will agree that what I have shared here is important. We need to give some serious thought and prayer to these things. Bro. Joe
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Linda Brooks
7/14/2016 02:28:09 pm
When I saw the title of this message, I was AFRAID to read it, and I should have been !!! Thank you for pouring on MORE salt and rubbing it in. I need it
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