Base text: Matthew 5:13
Imagine that you have entered the best French restaurant that you have been recommended, hungry and willing to try the most expensive dish, since you are blessed to enjoy it. They serve the dish and with a desire to taste it, he realizes that a glass full of water has more flavor than what he has been served.
How would it feel? This is something that does not make sense to you, right? But this is what happens when a Christian, whom Jesus named as the salt of the earth, stops knowing Christ and begins to be like the others who have no taste.
Salt represents the gospel, we are the ones who take charge of spicing the lives of others, of giving them meaning by bringing the word of God into their lives, just as our life now makes sense, thanks to Jesus.
Remember that every time we open our lips to show the power of God, and fulfill the great commission, what we are doing now is spreading salt to this world (Matthew 28: 19-20).
So why is it that Jesus talks about salt losing its essence and not salting? Just to take into account, the salt is a mineral and comes from salt or sea mines, it is very consumed by us, since it has the property of preserving or spicing food.
Moreover, in ancient times the salt was highly valued, and its production was legally restricted, so historically it was used as a method of trade and currency. Can you imagine this, pay with salt?
In addition, in the Old Testament, the word of God names her in several important opportunities that are worth considering, represented in her something specific:
I. Represent Punishment:
In Genesis 19:26 we see that Lot's wife, because she did not let go of the sin in which she lived and the comforts of that world, turned to look at the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah and that's where she became a statue of salt.
Jesus also warns him in Luke 17:32, where he tells us not to seek the things of this world, because if we seek to save the life we have we will lose it, but whoever loses it will be saved. Everything we leave to please God will be worth it ..
II. Represent offering:
In Leviticus 2:13 God instructed Moses how he should present the offering, and that it should be seasoned and the salt of the covenant could never be missed; which means that we are also an offering that we present before God without missing in our mouth, and in our lives, that Jesus is our Lord, since He is the eternal covenant who communicates with God thanks to His sacrifice on the cross.
III. I represent Health:
In 2 Kings 2: 19-22, Elisha after receiving the double portion of the spirit that fell on Elijah, who was caught, acted in favor of some springs, whose waters were bad, spreading salt on them in this way they were purified and healthy the sterile earth.
What it means is that the word of God gives healing, and we are the ones who scatter it for those people who are like springs of bad waters and that their lives will be healed just as we had when we believed in Jesus.
conclusion
In this brief biblical outline we have highlighted some moments in which the word of God speaks about salt, but it is clear what we are, and the responsibility we have to be called by Jesus leave the earth.
The Lord warns us that we can not stop salting, that is to speak of the truth that is Jesus, and that we can not because like His children (John 1:12), we have to act in a similar way as He did (1 Peter 1:14).
That is why we can never forget that those who love the world will never receive the promises of God.
Remember that if we are friends of the world, we automatically become enemies of God, and vice versa (James 4: 4-5). In other words, when we determine to be faithful followers of Christ, and obey the word of God, we automatically become enemies of the world.