Remember Who We Are #21

As Jesus was wrapping up his Beatitudes, working His way into the rest of the Sermon on the Mount, He said in Matthew 5: 
13 “You are the salt of the earth, but if salt has lost its taste, how shall its saltiness be restored? It is no longer good for anything except to be thrown out and trampled under people's feet."

We are the salt of the earth.  In our day and age, salt is a part of daily life we often take for granted. We use it for flavoring, to melt snow, and maybe to make homemade ice cream, but not to the extent it was used in that day.  It was used often for its preservation of meat and other foods, and was rare enough that it was used to pay soldiers - as a type of money.  The problem with salt was that once it was used for its main purpose, it was only good as weed killer on the roads.  It really is a fitting example of who we are and should be as the people of God.  We should be viewed as valuable for how important we are for daily life - not because of what we do, but because of what Christ does through us.  We should make life taste better for those around us.  We also should realize that sometimes people will look at us as Christians and decide we have outlived our usefulness to society and trample us underfoot.  That will happen when the world strays from God, but we need to make sure it is not because we have lost our saltiness and positive impact on those around us.