Salty for Christ

~~~ James 5:1-6 ~~~ Psalm 49 ~~~ Mark 9:41-50 ~~~

“Everyone will be salted with fire.
Salt is good, but if salt becomes insipid,
with what will you restore its flavor?
Keep salt in yourselves and you will have peace with one another.”

Those who are salt of the earth and dependable and unpretentious.
Salt does not have to claim to be something it is not.

Salt adds flavor.
Salt preserves preventing bacteria growth.
Perhaps in our diet today we are encouraged to curtail our salt intake,
but the salt that comes from God remains pertinent.

We who have been seasoned with the fire
and salt of Christ are to keep it alive and live accordingly.

Salt cannot loose its chemical compounds which give it the salty taste.
But we can loose our ability to taste the salt.
If we do not taste the salt we will not know we possess that which is salty.

We are to be seasoned with the love of Christ.
We are to be on fire for sharing the love of Christ.

We are to seasoned and burning for Christ.
Our actions and our attitudes will be evident of the salt and the fire.

As followers of Christ we can bring out the best
 in ourselves and in others.
The words we say to one another must be words
 that preserve the understanding that Christ lives in each of us.

Carrying the presence of Jesus
in your mind, heart, soul, and body will insure
the integrity of the salt.
The salt shall not lose its flavor.

Blessed to be seasoned with the love of Christ.
Blessed to be on fire with the love of Christ.
Peace.