Can Salt Loose Its Flavor? Can We?

You are the salt of the earth, but if salt has lost its taste (its strength, its quality), how can its saltiness be restored? It is not good for anything any longer but to be thrown out and trodden underfoot by men. Matthew 5:13 

Salt is important…it preserves food, gives food flavor and in the Bible it stands for permanence and incorruption.

Every grain offering of yours, moreover, you shall season with salt, so that the salt of the covenant of your God shall not be lacking from your grain offering; with all your offerings you shall offer salt.                                                                                                        Leviticus 2:13

All the offerings of the holy gifts, which the sons of Israel offer to the LORD, I have given to you and your sons and your daughters with you, as a perpetual allotment. It is an everlasting covenant of salt before the LORD to you and your descendants with you.       Numbers 18:19  

Do you not know that the LORD God of Israel gave the rule over Israel forever to David and his sons by a covenant of salt?                                                                                    2 Chronicles 13:5 

Salt is good; but if the salt becomes unsalty, with what will you make it salty again? Have salt in yourselves, and be at peace with one another.                                                            Mark 9:50 

So if we are the “salt of the earth” how should we give flavor—make life tasty—spread our joy, contentment, and encouragement in Christ with others?

Let your speech always be with grace, as though seasoned with salt, so that you will know how you should respond to each person.                                                                       Colossians 4:6

Jesus was telling the multitude of people listening to Him on that mountain that they needed to keep their flavor, their zeal for life. We are no different today. Do we want to be “trampled underfoot?” 

RSVP:   Jesus is inviting us today to know that we are to be salt—to give flavor, and to keep our enthusiasm for life in Him, not to lose our passion or zeal for life. How will you respond to Him today? 

Prayer ~ Jesus, may the words that I speak today offer encouragement and hope in You to others in a flavorful way. Please give me grace to treat others with kindness, goodness, gentleness, patience, peace, joy and love.

© 2014 by Mickey M. Hunacek. All rights reserved.

All scripture quoted from the New American Standard Bible (NASB) unless otherwise noted.