Keep Us Salty

Jesus didn’t tell his followers- then or now- “Be salty!” Because we already are.
“You are blessed when they insult you and persecute you.”

“You are the salt of the earth.”

“You are the light of the world.”

Jesus has made it so.

We live in a culture that tells us we can and should work to be the best. Aim high! And higher! Higher still! Perform better! Faster! Keep striving!

That’s not the gospel.

Jesus said “Remain in me, and I in you. Just as a branch is unable to produce fruit by itself unless it remains on the vine, neither can you unless you remain in me. I am the vine; you are the branches. The one who remains in me and I in him produces much fruit, because you can do nothing without me. If anyone does not remain in me, he is thrown aside like a branch and he withers. They gather them, throw them into the fire, and they are burned.”

Remain. Remain. Remain. And once more, in case we missed it, our Savior said “remain”. If we abide in him, his Spirit will produce the fruit in us. Much fruit, in fact: an ever-increasing yield of love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, gentleness, faithfulness and self-control.

If we don’t remain in Him?

Useless branches thrown in the fire, burned.

Tasteless and impure salt, trampled.

A lamp hidden; our world left in darkness.

Jesus, teach us to abide. By the power of your Spirit, keep us salty so the world may taste and see that you are good, and glorify our Father in heaven. Amen.

-Natalie