You Are the Salt of the Earth

6. May 2008 by Bernice Davis.

Hello: 

Did you do your homework?  (lol) 

Okay, let’s talk about some characteristics of salt.  In the Greco-Roman world (which was the world in which Jesus lived) salt was considered to be divine.   To the Romans, it was said that nothing was more important to them than salt and the sun.  Salt was so valuable that often it would be used to pay wages and if you were a lousy soldier the saying arose that “you weren’t worth your salt.”  So for a day’s work, you would receive salt in return because it was such a valuable trading commodity.   

In the days where there was no refrigeration, you can only imagine how valuable salt was for preserving especially meats.   Salt was used to stop things from decaying or prevent it from being destroyed or deteriorating.    

Even though today, we have many ways of refining salt to make sure it did not lose its savor, in the ancient world, it was possible for salt to lose its savor or become bad.  In the event this happened, it would be thrown into the streets and people would trample on top of it.   They dare not throw it in the fields or in farmland, for fear of damaging the soil, so it was thrown into the streets.   

Do you see where we are going with this?  Jesus said:  “Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be salted? it is thenceforth good for nothing, but to be cast out, and to be trodden under foot of men.” So how do we bring this into the natural?  What does it mean for us to be salt, and how can we loose our saltiness?  If we do lose it, what does it mean to be “trodden under the foot of men?” 

Tomorrow, we’ll deal with these issues. 

God Bless. 

Don’t forget to pray and read God’s word daily.

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