Pass the Salt!!!

"Ye are the salt of the earth."(Matthew 5:13)

Salt does many things.  It seasons.  It heals.  Salt purifies and preserves.  Dr. Vance Havner once said that salt also irritates.  That is it smarts, it causes a sting.  True Christians who are really putting Christ first in their lives are out of step with the world, for they are walking in the steps of Jesus Christ.  The Christlike life will rub the world the wrong way, but that is alright.  Jesus said: "The World hath hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world."  Righteous living is a rebuke to this world, and the world resents anything or anyone that exposes its corruption and sinfulness.  Let's be salty Christians.  Our influence makes all the difference in a lost and dying world.  Spread a little salt all around!