Do you think you can’t do anything important for God in your school, neighborhood, or workplace because you are only one person and those places are filled with many
people who don't believe in Jesus?
God doesn’t expect you to do big important things. God expects you to do a little, simple thing. He expects you to act like salt in a recipe.
God created salt. It is one of His many gifts to us. Salt can be added to food in small amounts. Without salt, food is bland, nearly tasteless. Salt can also be used to preserve food so it can be stored and usable longer.
In Matthew 5:13 Jesus said, “You are the salt of the earth.” God has a wonderful recipe or plan for the lives of everyone on earth. God asks us to let Him use us in small amounts in His recipe. Why? Every little thing we do can touch the hearts of the people around us. Little by little our small, everyday acts of love, kindness, gentleness, and generosity will work on the hearts of the people around us and make them "thirsty" to know more about God. In time, those people will want to be part of God’s wonderful recipe, too.
I hope you will do a few “salty” things for God today.
God, use each one of us in whatever way is best. Help us to be salt so our friends will become thirsty for You. In Jesus’ name. Amen.
Related Scripture:
Matthew 5:13-16 – “You are the salt of the earth. But if the salt loses its taste, it cannot be made salty again. Salt is useless if it loses its salty taste. It will be thrown out where people will just walk on it...Live so that they will see the good things you do and praise your Father in heaven.”
Job 6:6 – “Is tasteless food eaten without salt, or is there flavor in the white of an egg?”
Mark 9:49 – "Everyone will be salted with fire. ‘Salt is good, but if it loses its saltiness, how can you make it salty again? Have salt in yourselves, and be at peace with each other.’”
Luke 14:34 – “Salt is good, but if it loses its saltiness, how can it be made salty again? It is fit neither for the soil nor for the manure pile; it is thrown out. ‘He who has ears to hear, let him hear.’”
Colossians 4:6 – “Let your conversation be always full of grace, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how to answer everyone.”