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ARE YOU SALTY?

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by Charles Sibthorpe

I was watching a chat show on TV which had as its guest a famous chef. The host seeking to get things going, asked a very simple question, “What is your favourite ingredient?” to which the surprise answer came, “Salt!”  The chef then went onto say that very small amounts of salt can do amazing things to food ingredients. He would even add it to fruit, he said as he continued extolling the transforming power of salt.

Jesus said to his disciples, “You are the salt of the earth. But if it loses its saltiness…it is no longer good for anything.”  (Matthew 5:13) Was Jesus challenging his disciples to so add their saltiness to each situation that they would introduce life transforming power?

Jesus modelled this salty life. In Capernaum he began to teach the people and they were amazed because “his message had authority,” which they were totally unused to.  On another occasion it is recorded that they, “wondered at his gracious words.”

When the disciples were being confronted by the Sanhedrin it records, “When they saw the courage of Peter and John and realised they were unschooled, ordinary men…. They took note that these man had been with Jesus.” (Acts 4:13)  It appears as if they were spreading salt among the priests.

Paul speaks in glowing terms of Titus, “But God who comforts the downcast, comforted us by the coming of Titus.”  (2 Corinthians 7:6)  His coming introduced salt into a moment of crisis which Paul described as, “…conflicts on the outside, fears within.”

At the end of many of Paul’s letters he mentions those who have helped and encouraged him. In Ephesians, he speaks warmly of Tychicus, and concludes his remarks, “I am sending him to you for this very purpose, that you may know how we are and that he may encourage you.” (Ephesians 6:22)

How salty are you? Your saltiness has life transforming power!

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