Mark 9:50

Mark 9:50 “Salt is good, but if it loses its saltiness, how can you make it salty again? Have salt in yourselves, and be at peace with each other.”

Have salt in yourselves is an interesting directive. Jesus is asking us to have salt. What does that mean? How can we have salt? Well, salt was a preservative in ancient times. Food was preserved by salt to keep it from spoiling. I think the above scripture indicates the same thing. To keep us from spoiling, from ruining the gospel of peace, we should judge ourselves. Rather than wait for the final judgment to evaluate our lives, we should judge how we are doing right now. Jesus wanted his disciples to be in unity, and the only way they could be in unity was by being salty or by being self-sacrificing, knowing who they were and therefore willingly displaying the role of a servant--considering each other in love. John said you would know Christians by their love, their willingness to go the second mile, their willingness to love each other without considering their needs first. If we don't judge our lives, God will some day judge them with fire, and we will be found wanting. We will be found without the true nature of Jesus Christ. Saltiness demands that we look at our lives and determine if we are following Jesus according to the scriptures. Jesus said “Salt is good, but if it loses its saltiness, how can you make it salty again? Salt is good, it plays an important role in preserving life, but if it loses it basic nature, its power to preserve, it is useless.

If we Christians fail to be salty, fail to look at our lives, fail to walk as Christ has asked us to walk, we become useless in preserving life. We are irrelevant and unnecessary. We are just people added to the world's population, not people who are here to preserve life for eternity. Therefore, check your walk. Determine if your walk is still in "THE WAY", whether you are still enthralled with Jesus Christ, whether your life measures up to his standard OF LOVE, divine unconditional love. Or have you lost your saltiness? Are you practicing the ways of the world? Is your life indistinguishable from the world? Would people know that you are a Christian? Are you judging your imperfections in the Spirit and praying that God will heal those imperfections deep inside you? I am sure you are doing all of those things, for you want to remain salty. You want to have something to offer others. You want to be a preserver of life and not a destroyer. You want God to be manifested and not yourself. One thing about being a Christian: every day is a new day. Today is the day of Lord, and we can rejoice and be glad in it. Today is the day of salvation. Otherwise, you can always be salty again. Salt is also an enhancer; it brings flavor to our lives. You can have the fruit of the Spirit in your life. You can always be at peace with each other. Jesus Christ is our life, and when we take inventory of our lives and find evidence of a lack of saltiness, we can always go back to the true fountain of life and ask him to renew us, to refresh us, to make us like him, and He will.