Have salt in yourselves, and be at peace with one another.

AM Psalm 78:1-39 • PM Psalm 78:40-72
Isa. 59:1-15a • 2 Tim. 1:1-14 • Mark 9:42-50

Salt for thousands of years was used as a preservative to keep meat from spoiling. Salt was so valuable it was used to buy things. Ezekiel talks about newborn babies being rubbed with salt because of it’s purifying agents.

Today, we use Himalayan salt as a bath scrub to freshen and purify our skin. I use a Himalayan salt lamp because it is known to generate positive energy. When our bodies are too acidic or too basic, Himalayan salt can help bring our bodies back to a normal pH. The salt can bring us back into balance. Himalayan salt helps to remove toxins from the body. There are many other things that salt can do for us from helping to get a better night’s sleep to lowering blood pressure. In other words, Himalayan salt is healthy for our bodies.

Now think of yourself as Jesus called you in Matthew 5, “You are the salt of the earth”.

Your salt is good. The salt in us keeps us in balance, keeps us pure, keeps us positive and healthy. The “Jesus” in us does the same thing for our spirit. We need to work to stay salty. Jesus tells us to keep the salt in us and to use the product of that salt towards one another. Peace, balance, positivity, and health.

Working to stay salty ourselves helps us to extend our saltiness toward each other. So that when others come in contact with us, we “taste” different than others. Like when someone eats salty potato chips they become thirsty so too when others are with us they too will become thirsty from our saltiness.

Our saltiness will have others thirst for the one water that will satisfy their thirst – Jesus Christ. Jesus said, “whoever drinks the water I give them will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give them will become in them a spring of water welling up to eternal life.”

Stay salty, my friends!

Written by Chris Schaefer

A salty person that likes being the salty one in the room!