WOYWW: Salt of the Earth

This is what I woke up to this morning.

I was too sleepy last night to pack away.

 Here is what I was working on.

I like long necklaces with lots of thingamabobs,

whatever! I have too many thingys 

and not enough time to put them together!

 "You are the salt of the earth...." Matthew 5:13

During the times of Jesus, they had no refrigerators nor freezers. 

Food like fish and meat would not keep for long 

unless they dried it or salted it. 

Today most salt is cheap and we can easily find it. 

But in ancient times, it was used as a currency, 

and people carried salt cakes around 

to barter with or buy something with. 

Roman soldiers were at some point paid in salt, 

and that's why we have the idiom, "worth his weight in salt". 

Taxes on salt have even inspired revolutions! 

And according to a salt company, 

the compound has more than 14,000 uses! 

When Jesus told the crowd, "You are the salt of the earth," 

He probably meant a lot of things. 

You are of immense value in the world. 

The world is corrupt and headed for destruction, 

and in need of preserving. 

And so that is the value of the Church in the world. 

Many today do not see the need for the Church. 

They think of the church as a building 

where people go to have religious services. 

But the Church is the people, the believers of Christ. 

We have a role to play to preserve what is of value in the world. 

2 Chronicles 7:14 emphasizes how important it is for us, 

the people of God to be salt and light in the world: 

"If MY PEOPLE, which are called by My name, 

shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek My face, 

and turn from their wicked ways: then I will hear from heaven, 

and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land." 

Yes, Lord, today more than ever, 

help us to be the salt of the earth!  

Help us to humble ourselves, pray, seek Your face, and repent! 

Forgive us O Lord of our iniquities, and hear us!

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Patsy