Salt of the Earth
Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be
salted? it is thenceforth
good for nothing, but to be cast out, and to be trodden under foot of men.
(Matthew 5:13) The savor of the salt is the covenant of the Lord. As we enter into a covenant with the Lord (which we do at baptism performed
by someone having the authority of God), we leave the bland throngs of the
world, having become the salt of the earth. In whatever group of men we enter
and mingle, we will add the flavor of love, peace, principle, righteousness,
faith, hope, and charity. The world will be blessed for it, and even though
there will be slant remarks from those who lack the backbone to seek and find
the covenants of the fathers, they will respect you and desire that which you
bring to the table. Un-salty salt is
useless. Having betrayed the
covenant once entered into with the Lord, a person is worse of than s/he was
prior to entering into that covenant. In short, where s/he was before slightly
mocked, but respected and always desired, s/he will from the day of his/her
descent have become utterly useless in the sight of the faithless world. For
which cook would add un-salty salt to a dish? The salt would just take up much
needed space in the kitchen. Oh, they will drink with you, party with you, and
in every way pull you down to their level just to prove to themselves that
there is no such thing as a spine! They will lick you up and down to mock the
fact that salt is not salty! Don't mistake this for love… Before the covenant you
were not judged by your friends as the ‘salt of the earth’. You were judged by the same standards as everyone else. Having
betrayed the covenant you will never be able to go back to how it was before
your days as the salt of the earth. After having received that covenant you
will either progress or retrogress, both on Gods eyes, your own eyes, and in
the eyes of your friends. Through the covenant
you will be transformed into one of the Chosen Ones, a covenant child of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. Just as they
received a new name of God in the covenant, so will you have a new name
awaiting you, as a token of the new life you have begun. You have become "the salt of the
earth". This is a wonderful blessing leading to eternal life. But God will
not be mocked. He invests everything in you.
Therefore the transformation into salt is irreversible. It's just that
the savor of the salt of the betrayer of the covenant
becomes tasteless. They become just like useless branches of a fruit-tree, and
the people will treat them accordingly: 4 Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of
itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in me. 5 I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the
same bringeth forth much
fruit: for without me ye can do nothing. 6 If a man abide
not in me, he is cast forth as a branch, and is withered; and men gather them,
and cast them into the fire, and they are burned. 7 If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you. (John 15:4-7)
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