Pass The Salt

Mark 9:49-50
49 Everyone will be salted with fire.
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." NIV

The Word is a refining fire for those for those who accept and receive it. As we let the scriptures speak to us, our old nature begins to give way as the Spirit opens our eyes to the way of life.

Salt was used to purify sacrifices in the days of the temple. It preserves and seasons. I understand it is used even today in a ceremony in the Arab world to represent a covenant of brotherhood.

Jesus speaks then of the restorative and preserving affect the gospel brings to us. Elsewhere we are described as the salt of the earth, for in Him we have that same affect in this world. We are urged to keep the flame of the Spirit bright within us that we might show its light and be at peace; peace with God, peace with ourselves, and peace with each other. We are to pass the salt.