Salt of the Earth!

(Colossians 4:6)  “Let your speech always be gracious, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how you ought to answer each person.”

What an amazing privilege to carry the surname “Saint”! Every child of God who has been born of the Spirit, all who have been born again carry that name. No longer do we respond to sinner, yes there will still be sin that needs to be dealt with on an individual and personal level but that has nothing to do with Christ's perfect work, we once were sinners but are all now saints. We may well sin from day to day but the price has been paid in full, praise the name of Jesus Christ our Lord. We are numbered amongst God’s army that is if we have His Spirit and of a certainty we belong to Him; we are in one of two camps; we either have His protection or we don’t. Remember the children of Israel when God sent the angel of death to kill all the firstborn sons throughout Egypt; unless they had blood on their doors they would not have escaped God’s judgment. Picture the scene, would you image the angel of death stopping at each individual door to have a debate on whether or not to carry out God’s sentence. Absolutely not! If there was no blood on the lintel death for every firstborn son was imminent, no discussion and no debate!

We have Christ’s Spirit if God has called us and we have responded to that call. Let us now not debate how that happens but rather has it happened. Do you believe in your heart that God has raised Jesus from the death and if so do you now make it a habit to confess Jesus as Lord is His blood evident in your life, is it clears for all to see that the Lord Jesus Christ’s blood has washed you clean? If so the angel of death has and must continue to pass us by!  

To be counted amongst the righteous is almost unconceivable and yet it is true. What manner of love is this that we should be called the sons of God! How great is the only true God, Jehovah God, the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob? He is our God, One and the same! Thank you Father God for sending you’re only begotten Son to pay the price for my sin and for the sins of all your children.

I speak to my brothers in Christ as the day passes by and yet I do not see this realization as the most evident part of my day. There is not a day that goes by, where we do not talk Christianity but where is the fire, where is the salt to our conversation? Forgive us Father, change the way we view salvation I pray!

Where is the zeal that once burnt bright and clear? If God is for us who can be against us? Why then is it not evident in conversation. How I long for that day when I will be like Jesus Christ my Lord. The day when I hear “well done my good and faithful servant enter into your rest”. So many distractions, and yet there is no excuse, we understand that the Lord Jesus laid down His life even unto death. Make the Apostles Paul’s persuasion become ours I pray; “But whatever gain I had, I counted as loss for the sake of Christ. Indeed, I count everything as loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake I have suffered the loss of all things and count them as rubbish, in order that I may gain Christ.” (Philippians 3:7-8): - Deep down we all know it will be worth it all, but we are still so weak, strengthen our faith I pray. Help us become the salt of the earth! How much salt is enough?

“Salt without prescribing how much.”

- Ezr_7:22

“Salt was used in every offering made by fire unto the Lord, and from its preserving and purifying properties it was the grateful emblem of divine grace in the soul. It is worthy of our attentive regard that, when Artaxerxes gave salt to Ezra the priest, he set no limit to the quantity, and we may be quite certain that when the King of kings distributes grace among his royal priesthood, the supply is not cut short by him. Often are we straitened in ourselves, but never in the Lord. He who chooses to gather much manna will find that he may have as much as he desires. There is no such famine in Jerusalem that the citizens should eat their bread by weight and drink their water by measure. Some things in the economy of grace are measured; for instance our vinegar and gall are given us with such exactness that we never have a single drop too much, but of the salt of grace no stint is made, “Ask what thou wilt and it shall be given unto thee.” Parents need to lock up the fruit cupboard, and the sweet jars, but there is no need to keep the salt-box under lock and key, for few children will eat too greedily from that. A man may have too much money, or too much honour, but he cannot have too much grace. When Jeshurun waxed fat in the flesh, he kicked against God, but there is no fear of a man’s becoming too full of grace: a plethora of grace is impossible. More wealth brings more care, but more grace brings more joy. Increased wisdom is increased sorrow, but abundance of the Spirit is fulness of joy. Believer, go to the throne for a large supply of heavenly salt. It will season thine afflictions, which are unsavoury without salt; it will preserve thy heart which corrupts if salt be absent, and it will kill thy sins even as salt kills reptiles. Thou needest much; seek much, and have much.” (Charles Spurgeon)

Signing off

Tyrone