Message from Scripture: 4/6/2021

Our message from Scripture today comes from Mark 9:50. “Salt is good, but If the salt becomes unsalty, with what will you make it salty again? Have salt in yourselves, and be at peace with one another.”

In the first century, there was no refining process for salt as today. Much of it contained not only sodium chloride but also other elements and impurities. If the sodium chloride washed out, the residue of white powder still looked like salt, and was still called salt, but it neither tasted nor acted like salt, as it had lost its quality of saltiness.

As Christians, we are to provide an example to those in sin. There is a quality, or distinctiveness, to our lives in Christ. Paul would write to the Romans, “Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what the will of God is, that which is good and acceptable and perfect” (Rom. 12:2). Only by living in Christ and living by His word can we possess that quality and have the influence we need to be the salt of the earth. To wear the name “Christian,” but not live as a Christian, is like salt that is no longer salty. Our lives only have meaning in Him when we live for Him, and in Him have peace.

Let us be Christians in word and deed. Let us exhibit those qualities in our lives that show us to be His disciples. May we be an influence for good to those around us, pointing the way to salvation in Christ, and may we, through Him, have the peace that passes all understanding. These virtues and blessings can be ours, if we dedicate ourselves to being like Christ, possessing those qualities that identify us as His. “The world is passing away, and also its lusts, but the one who does the will of God abides forever” (1 John 2:17). God bless.

Robert