We are the Salt by Blake Scharine

Hi folks, It usually takes me a while to get to the point and this bible study will be no exception.

You know we all fall short when stacked up against God’s perfection and so many of us have vices. A vice is just another word for sin and I’m a sinner, just like you and everyone else.

The two most commonly recognized or talked about vices are drinking and smoking. I can happily say I do neither, but I do enjoy eating. Yes, eating can be a vice without question, unhealthy eating specifically. I know folks that eat more when they get nervous, depressed or even bored.

For me, it’s enjoying each and every bite. The flavor of my food is really important, I’ll savor the meal even to a fault. Consequently, I’m usually the last to finish his meal as well.

Even when I was a kid I ate very slowly, although that was because I was always trying to find good spots to tuck away the foods I disliked. We had a dining room table w/little wooden pockets hidden underneath that worked great for that. But, no surprise, I digress…

Our e-Bible study continues w/ Matthew 5:13 “You are the salt of the earth. But if the salt loses its saltiness, how can it be made salty again? It is no longer good for anything, except to be thrown out and trampled underfoot.

This passage is a powerful statement coming directly from Jesus. We are more than frosting on the cake, a bow on the present, lipstick on a pig (ok that was dumb). We are the salt of the earth!

Salt has so many incredible abilities. Salt has the ability to bring out the best flavor of so many foods, it can be used in large quantities to best preserve perishables. In water it creates the best conductivity of electricity. It’s one of the best things to melt the hard glare surface of ice.

Remember the old BASF commercial, “we don’t make a lot of the products you buy, we make a lot of the products you buy better” God has given us this planet to live out our lives and with His grace and strength we can make our days and others the best. Like heaven on earth.

We the “Salt” have been sent out to bring the good news of God’s forgiveness and promise of eternal life to all the world. So will you put your best efforts, your best priority… really, are you prepared to give your very best to honor what God has bestowed to us?

Questions..

1. Can you be too “Salty” with God’s message when you approach others?
2. How can you make God’s promise better? Can that even be done?

Challenge…

Take this next week to begin making God’s grace palatable to each person you come in contact with individually. That means get to know the person you’re sharing with, find out where they are at in their faith walk and be just enough salt while sharing God’s message, that it tastes so good to them, that they want more and more.

Remember, too much salt with drive them away with a bad taste and not enough does them a disservice and doesn’t honor God.

Stay “Salty”

God’s Strength, Blake