SALT and Light 

     So, the theologian asked, "What has happened to salt and light?" 

     Well, we salt (40% sodium, 60% chloride) our food, and we have sunlight part of each day. Salt and sunlight are vital to civilization. 

     Moses wrote of salt that is vital to our eternal life: Whatever is set aside from the holy offerings the Israelites present to the Lord...It is an everlasting covenant of salt before the Lord for both you and your offspring - Numbers 18-19. 

     Centuries later, Jesus addressed the Israelites:

     You are the salt of the earth. But if the salt loses its saltiness, how can it be made salty again? - Matthew 5:13.

     Later, Paul wrote to the Colossians (chapter 4:6). Let your conversation be always full of grace, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how to answer everyone. 

COMMENTARY: As table salt is valuable to give flavor and to preserve, believers and the church must be godly examples in the world and resist the moral decay and corruption in society. 

Christ severely warns the church about spiritual lukewarmness. He invites the church to repent and be restored to a place of faith, righteousness and fellowship. 

To churches that overcome he will come to them in blessing and in the power of the Spirit, opening a door that no one can shut. 

Salt in the Bible represents preservation and permanence.

Friday: Discussion on light. Don't miss it.