Seasoned With Salt.

Paul is exhorting the Colossians that in everything that they do as Christians they must season “their life” with salt. What exactly is the idea of seasoning something? Well, we all know that salt is an ingredient that is used in order to preserve. Salt flavor is one of the basic tastes, and salt is the most popular food seasoning. Salt is also an important preservative. The Bible often uses salt to teach us that we as Christians must season the world in which we are living.
1) Mt 5:13 "You are the salt of the earth; but if the salt loses its flavor, how shall it be seasoned? It is then good for nothing but to be thrown out and trampled underfoot by men.
What Jesus is saying in Matthew is that you and I have the job, the task, to help the world by understanding that we are the salt of the earth. Think of it like this: The world is getting corrupt by sin, the world is getting rotten by sin, the world will be wasted if we as Christians do not add some salt in the life of those who are dying in their sin.
To get comfortable and ignore that the world is dying in sin will not help us. We are the salt of the world. But what will happen when we being as salt compromise with the world?
1) Lu 14:34 "Salt is good; but if the salt has lost its flavor, how shall it be seasoned?
We must keep that salt in our lives at one point. If we do not know how to use it, then this salt will lose it flavor. We must be on constant guard, making sure that we still have flavor in the sight of God, as salt.
In my passage that I quoted at the beginning Paul is talking to the Colossians and he reminded them who they were and how they are supposed to talk, to act and to conduct themselves, Paul said:
1) Col 4:6 Let your speech always be with grace, seasoned with salt, that you may know how you ought to answer each one.
Everything that we do as Christians must be seasoned with salt! Are we? Are we making sure we are only using conversation which are profitable for you and I? Do we end up in disputes and controversies when we talk because we do not know how to season our conversations?
Think about it, we are the salt and in our every action God is expecting you and I to put some flavor unto those who are sad, disappointed and crying due to difficulties that they are facing in life.
2) Mark 9:50 "Salt is good, but if the salt loses its flavor, how will you season it? Have salt in yourselves, and have peace with one another."
Jesus in Mark 9:50 is saying that salt by all means is good. If we all have salt in our lives then we will be helping those who are dying in their sins and trespasses but that also we will have peace with one another.
When we lose that sense of responsibility to love one another and to seek for peace among us, then we will no longer have flavor for one another.
Are we responsible enough to think about the lessons from “this good ingredient which is salt”?
May the good Lord help us to understand who we are and our purpose and mission as a church.
In Love
Eric Castillo