Re-salted

You are the salt of the earth.  But if salt loses its saltiness, how can it be made salty again?  It is no longer good for anything but to thrown out and trampled by men.  Matthew 5:13 (NIV)

Obviously Jesus  wasn’t telling these people they were made out of salt.  He had some spiritual message to convey that might have included some ideas like these:  Salt preserves.  Salt flavors so that it’s presence or absence is unmistakable.  Salt is best used when it’s spread around and not piled up in one place.  Salt makes you thirsty.  So Jesus gave them high praise for how valuable they were. 

But he also reminded them it was important to retain the unique nature of saltiness.  A lot of the time I feel like I fall in that “trampled by men” category.  My tendancy is to then get down on myself and look inward and lose even more saltiness.   A better response is to ask God to make me salty all over again.  God can do that, I think.