Salt and Light

Matthew 5:13-16

 “You are the salt of the earth. But if the salt loses its saltiness, how can it be made salty again? It is no longer good for anything, except to be thrown out and trampled underfoot.  “You are the light of the world. A town built on a hill cannot be hidden.  Neither do people light a lamp and put it under a bowl. Instead they put it on its stand, and it gives light to everyone in the house. In the same way, let your light shine before others, that they may see your good deeds and glorify your Father in heaven.

Thank you heavenly Father for sending these scriptures my way today.  Thank you for the wake-up call and reminder of what I am here to do.  Thank you for reminding me that it is truly not about me and all about you!  Thank you for the wonderful time spent with my family today---it was truly a special time just with the four of us and no words can express how much I love you for all the blessings that fill our lives.  Thank you for touching my niece, Kellar, with your healing hand.  Thank you for all my family and friends, but especially to the strangers that I met tonight, that are now no longer strangers.  I can honestly say that I find myself in awe over all that you have done for me and my family---we are truly blessed beyond measure!

So my reminder from you came through your word, more specifically these four verses found in Matthew.  I was reminded in such a gentle but powerful way that I am called to be the salt and the light, but if I am not salty nor shining then what good am I?  Really what good am I?  It is not about me, it is about you and my mission is to show others that by doing what you have called me to do.  My calling, I know without a doubt, is to write and share my thoughts with others.  So what good am I if I am not doing that?  Not too much good and since I haven’t been writing much lately (almost none at all) these scriptures hit me pretty hard.  You know we are all called of God to do something, but God is not ever going to force any one of us to fulfill that calling---that part, my friend, is up to each of us.  Sometimes we make excuses and think that we are just waiting on Him to move, but the truth is we don’t wait on God because he is always moving, he is always working out the plan, he is always in control.  So many times I think he is just waiting on us to make that move, to finally realize what he has been showing us all along. 

I want to be the salt of the earth, I want to be full of flavor and let that spill over onto all that I do.  I want to be the light of the world, I want to be shining that light so bright that people cannot help but to see Christ in my life.  I had someone, one of the strangers that I met tonight, tell me this…. “you know when we are shining that light, it is like shining a flashlight on Jesus so that others can see him and if we are not shining it and pointing it towards Jesus the people around us may never see him because the darkness of this world is covering up what we should be lighting up.”  I thought this was such a powerful point to make and so true…if we proclaim to be a Christian then we are to be the salt and light of this world, there is no other way to be.  We are all living at this very time and find ourselves in the moments at the exact time that God has chosen for us, but we have be shining at those moments in order to fulfill the mission that God has called us to complete.  As long as we are here on this earth our mission is not complete, as long as we have breathe left in us we still have something left to do.  I don’t know about you but I do not want to be trampled underfoot and I don’t want to be hid under a bowl.  I do want to fulfill my mission---I want to be the salt and the light---I want to show others the love of Jesus that fills my heart with such joy.