Daily Devotional

Have you ever wondered why God calls you the "salt of the earth?" Here are a few reasons and facts about salt:

1. Salt is used for seasoning

Salt is used as a seasoning to enhance the taste of food or to make bland food taste good. And, just as salt alters everything it comes into contact with, so must Gods life in and through you make a difference in every life you touch.

2. Salt is used as a preservative

For centuries salt has been used to preserve foods such as meat, fish and dairy products. Without salt these foods become impure and inedible. Likewise, you should be pure and perfect before the Lord and before this world. You are required to be in this world, but not to conform to the worlds way of doing things; but rather be a royal priesthood and a peculiar nation.

3. Salt was used in sacrifices

In Leviticus 2:13 we read that every meat sacrifice made to God had to be seasoned with salt. Why? Because salt is incorruptible. It cannot change its nature. 1 Peter 1:23 says that you are born again into an incorruptible seed by the Word of God which lives and abides forever. You are required to present your body to God a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable unto Him — your body should not be corrupted by the world but rather remain incorruptible for the great day when we shall see our Saviour and Creator.

Just as food is used to keep food pure and seasoned so too must you keep the earth pure and seasoned. Salt renders food pleasant and palatable, and preserves from decay. As a child of God, live your life in line with the Word of God and keep the earth from entire moral corruption.