{"id":905,"date":"2006-10-02T10:16:13","date_gmt":"2006-10-02T10:16:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.creativeyouthideas.com\/resources\/?p=905"},"modified":"2021-04-08T22:22:58","modified_gmt":"2021-04-08T14:22:58","slug":"seasoned-with-salt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.creativeyouthideas.com\/resources\/devotional\/seasoned-with-salt\/","title":{"rendered":"Seasoned with Salt"},"content":{"rendered":"

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If you were to describe your life as a spice or seasoning, what would it be?
\nWhat seasoning does your life bring to the world? Why?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Read Mathew 5:13; I Peter 3:15-16; 2 Tim 4:2<\/strong>
\nWe often use salt as a pinch of zest for our food. Salt adds flavor and it also creates thirst. In the days before modern medicine, salt was often used to disinfect a wound and to preserve food. In Matthew 5:13, Jesus was warning his disciples to avoid two errors:<\/p>\n

First, he was saying that Christians must not forsake the world and go into isolation only looking inward. Why? Salt will do no good unless it is rubbed it. Only then will it function as an antiseptic. We are to be in the world so that the world may benefit by our difference from the world.<\/p>\n

Second, Jesus was saying that Christians must also avoid the error of being one with the world and embracing its values and ways. When you accept Jesus’ call to be the salt of the earth, you give flavor to the world around you. You bring a taste of God to others os that they can taste and see that the Lord is good. You help preserve God’s goodness in the events and people you encounter.<\/p>\n

Go back and reread Matthew 5:1-12 again.<\/strong><\/p>\n