YE ARE THE SALT OF THE EARTH

 

EVENING DEVOTION

OCTOBER 4

 

Matthew 5:13

Ye are the salt of the earth:

 
Sin has rendered it unsavoury, and exposed it to destruction.
 
Only grace and truth can restore it to purity and order.
 
These come by Jesus Christ, and they are retained and diffused by his people.
 
He compares his saints to salt.
 
They season and preserve others.
 
Every Christian is a grain of salt.
 
He should affect and impress all around him.
 
His principles are to be diffused, and his character is to attract and instruct.
 
The earth without the saints, would be given up to putrefaction and destruction.
 
Beloved, are you seasoning those around you?
 
Is your conversation always with grace, seasoned with salt, that it may minister unto the hearers?
 
Do you diffuse what you possess? Do you possess what you profess?
 
Who is the better for you?
 
Does your influence spread silently and penetrate deeply, like that of salt in nature?
 
Or, have you only the form of godliness without the power?
 
If a Christian, you will benefit all with whom you may be brought into contact; you will not live unto yourself, but unto him that died for you and rose again.
 
If salt is present, it will discover itself; and so will grace.
 

Now to my Saviour I would live,

To him who for my ransom died;

Nor would I untainted Eden give

Such bliss as blossoms at his side.

 
James Smith