Mark 9: 49 “For everyone will be tested with fire. 50 Salt is good for seasoning. But if it loses its flavor, how do you make it salty again? You must have the qualities of salt among yourselves and live in peace with each other.”
at the time of the writing of the bible.. salt was used to purify and to preserve...
when this scripture tells us we must have the qualities of salt these are the things that are being talked about...
when we talk about purity we always think of sexual purity.. and I agree that sexual purity is important.. for me.. sexual purity has been the thing that has been used to cleanse my mind.. when we are sleeping with someone outside of marriage.. we are taking on their spirit and we are also defiling ourselves.. so the more people we sleep with.. the more defiled and the more unfamiliar spirits we take on... having said that.. sexual purity is not as much for God as it is for our own self...
but I think another purity that we so often overlook is purity of the mind... if we fill our mind with things of this world.. then how can the things of God reside there too? we cannot be whole and be broken at the same time.. we cannot be pure and be defiled at the same time... I rarely listen to secular music... I find that when I fill my mind with secular music my mind wanders to sex.. so to stay sexually undefiled.. I just don't listen to it... I used to love serial killer books... jonathan kellerman is my favorite author for it... but I can't seem to read it now.. it doesn't sit well in my spirit.. I have to put it down.. so I have stopped trying to read them..
don't imagine that I don't watch wrong things of tv or at the movies.. or ever listen to anything I shouldn't or think things I shouldn't.. I surely do... but the less we put into our spirit of the world.. the less of the world that will be there... I put more of God into my spirit than anything... therefore I am filled with God more than the other things...
what about a preservative... how would we be likened to a preservative?
the definition of preserving something is to keep alive.. or make lasting.. to keep something from harm or injury...
how would we say we are preserving something? what is it we are to be preserving?
everyone will be tested with fire.. I would really rather not.. as I am sure that no one else would either.. yet what value do we have if we cannot sustain life through trials? in the commentary of the scripture it was suggesting that possibly some of the people of God were falling away from God when Jesus wasn't right there with them... how very like us that is... we can't hear Him.. can't feel Him.. can't see Him.. so we go off making our own choices.. doing our own thing... and what value is that? we always land in a boiling pot from that...
live in peace with one another... that is a struggle sometimes.. sometimes I would rather just be left alone.. but how is that anything like Christ?
our value is in Christ.. in being the salt of this earth.. in becoming pure and preserving the kingdom... and it is a daily process..
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