Ye are the Salt

You are the salt of the earth. But if salt has lost its taste, how shall its saltiness be restored? It is no longer good for anything except to be thrown out and trampled under people’s feet.

Salt Preserves. Lloyd Jones says this verse, “implies rottenness in the earth; it implies a tendency to pollution and to becoming foul and offensive.” Isn’t that true! The same thing happens to a chunk of meat without preservative. My brother has done years of research with this. It will become more and more putrid, more and more disgusting.

Salt Flavors. As Christians, your life and my life should make a difference in the world. We are “the fragrance of the knowledge of Him,” and “the aroma of Christ to God.” My life should enhance the life of my neighbor. His life should be better, because he knows me.

The following story was in Macarthur's excellent commentary on Matthew...

Woodrow Wilson told the story of being in a barbershop one time. “I was sitting in a barber chair when I became aware that a powerful personality had entered the room. A man had come quietly in upon the same errand as myself to have his hair cut and sat in the chair next to me. Every word the man uttered, though it was not in the least didactic, showed a personal interest in the man who was serving him. And before I got through with what was being done to me I was aware I had attended an evangelistic service, because Mr. D. L. Moody was in that chair. I purposely lingered in the room after he had left and noted the singular affect that his visit had brought upon the barber shop. They talked in undertones. They did not know his name, but they knew something had elevated their thoughts, and I felt that I left that place as I should have left a place of worship.”

Father, whether I visit a barbershop, an auto shop, or any place, only that I would be salt.