Salty Words

Salt is good, but if the salt loses its flavor, how will you season it? Have salt in yourselves, and have peace with one another. Mark 9:50

This verse... Well, this verse has been used in a great many ways in sermons I have heard and seen over the years. We have lost some of the value though in our latter days as salt is commonly available, even cheap to purchase. In our Lord's time, salt was critical to life and not easily come by. If we needed further evidence that Jesus was a man, we find it here in our verse today, "Salt is good." Men like the taste of salt. Salt has been used to preserve meat, but we have refrigeration. But the point does not seem to be how to use salt, but that if salt becomes not salt, how can a person make it salt again? In other words, if something in us is lost, we may not be able to find it again. If a person believes in Jesus today, but loses his faith tomorrow, his state may be one of such woe that even the best efforts of the Spirit may not revive him. This salt of sacrifice also seems to allow for peace in our relationships.

Some salty words for you today,

Bucky