“For every one shall be salted with fire, and every sacrifice shall be salted with salt. Salt is good: but if the salt have lost his saltness, wherewith will ye season it? Have salt in yourselves, and have peace one with another.”
Mark 9:49-50 KJV
Jesus said, “Everyone will pass through the fire and every sacrifice will be seasoned with salt. Salt is excellent for seasoning. But if salt becomes tasteless, how can its flavor ever be restored? Your lives, like salt, are to season and preserve. So don’t lose your flavor, and preserve the peace in your union with one another.” The unbeliever will be thrown into the fires of Gehenna, and the believer will pass through the refining fire of God’s holiness and love. We, as a living sacrifice, are made ‘salty’ for God! In Jewish culture salt is a symbol of faithfulness in friendship. Jesus is teaching us to be faithful friends to one another and live in peace. In this way we don’t lose our flavour. Amen!
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