Today’s Thoughts: At times we look upon salt as not such a good thing. if we are a person with high blood pressure or have some other medical issue, we have a tendency to stay away from salt because our doctor says so. Yet in our Gospel today Jesus asks us to consider adding salt to the everyday journey of our life.
We need to remember that salt was very important during Jesus’ time. It was a preserver of food. There were no refrigerators, or freezers. If you want to preserve food salting it often made that possible. Salt also added flavor to food as it often does today. However, Jesus’ use of salt is not about food it is about living life. Jesus is asking us to add the salt of God’s grace, God’s presence, God’s compassion, mercy and love to our lives each day. This kind of salt will not raise our blood pressure, it will lower it, it will flavor it, it will pressure it! We are to add the presence of God to our life each day so that our lives and the lives of all whom we encounter are graced, blessed, touched and renewed. We are to find the flavor of God within ourselves and share it with all whom we meet. We are to make our own lives and the lives of all whom we meet better, richer. This is the challenge of discipleship this is the challenge of the Christian life. Jesus makes it very clear if we choose not to add God’s salt to our lives what will happen. “It would be better for [us] if a great millstone were put around [our] neck and [we] were thrown into the sea” (Mark 9:42). To be a disciple, to be a person of faith we are to bring the flavor, the grace, the presence of God to our own lives and to the live of all whom we me! So, as we begin this new day our first words of prayer to Jesus this morning might be – “Lord, please pass the salt!” Have a holy and blessed Thursday everyone!
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