You are SALT.

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DAUGHTER,

You…

Are…

SALT..

What does that mean? Find out for more.

Hey y’all! It’s your girl Julie, and we’re back with another segment of “Salty & Lit.”

Have you ever thought of what it means to be salt?

When you think of salt, do you think of what it means to be “the salt of the earth?” I didn’t, but I did some research, and I learned that when you’re called the salt of the earth, you’re a person that’s held in high esteem. Crazy to think that salt could be seen as high esteem when I sometimes treat it as basic. However, I think that’s what makes salt so great: salt has so many uses: it’s used as a seasoning, fine-grained, and high purity, it’s used as a preservative, so when used at sacrifices, it marked a seal of an obligation to fidelity, and lastly, it was used as a currency back in the day (Wood et al., 2024).

Y’all, we downplayed salt (well, I have). God is calling us to see ourselves as salt (not the way the world does, but the way He does). He says we are the salt of the earth, and there’s a question that comes with it. What happens if the salt loses its taste? I researched, and I want to share a chemistry lesson real quick; it’s actually extremely hard for salt to lose its flavor. Its chemical compounds are so stable it can’t lose its flavor. Unless… it was never salt to begin with.

My friend, God calls us salt, and we live in His identity as salt. We are called to be salt, yet what does that look like? To me, salty means standing apart. Jesus, in Matthew 5:13, calls us the salt of the earth, however know that we won’t lose flavor as long as we stay connected to Him. As we are pure, we’re able to have that influence that salt has on the spaces it covers.

And that’s what I guess is our role with salt. There are times in which it’ll be “good,” but there are times when it might not seem as good. Regardless, salt is salt. It can’t break its identity to appease to the things it comes in contact with. When God calls us salt, I think it’s the same way. We’re not called to dissolve; we’re called to preserve. Preserve what? The world that we are in today.

You are the salt of the earth.

References

Wood, F. Osborne, Hills, John M. and Ralston, Robert H. (2024, December 6). salt. Encyclopedia Britannica. https://www.britannica.com/science/salt