A Spectacle Of Glory #59

Read: Matthew 5:13

Whenever cucumber season rolls around, I think about my sister Jay, who lives on our family farm in Maryland. Jay’s garden always produces a bumper crop of beautiful cucumbers that she boils, blanches, strains, and seals into unbelievable pickles. Her secret? Salt. Jay says the best way to preserve a pickle at its crunchiest, tastiest best is to add a lot of salt. Of course, two of those words have gone together for thousands of years—salt and preserve. In today’s Scripture, Jesus says, “You are the salt of the earth.” As followers of Jesus, we are a salty preservative in our culture, infusing godly values into life around us. We’ve been given the work of restraining evil and advancing good. And just as salt brings out the flavor in food, don’t forget to “season” your conversations with Christ when people ask the reason for the hope that you have.^a

Lord, please don’t let me lose my flavor, my edge. You’ve called me to be salty, to have a distinctive tang and taste that stands out from the empty, tasteless values of the culture. Please don’t allow the distractions and trials of my life to wash me out and dilute my testimony. Help me to be the salt You’ve called me to be.