Salty....

So I have been reading a short little book about women of the Bible. It is a quick little read, that I have added to my daily quiet time. It is so cool to find encouragement and likeness with women who actually walked with Jesus!

Today, I was reading about Lot's wife. Poor thing! She lived in a tough time. Though there was no indication she participated in the sins of the region of Sodom, her story implied that she had learned to tolerate it and that her heart had become divided as a result. Lot's wife is remembered less for who she was---a wife, mother, daughter and sister---and more for what she became....a pillar of salt! With one irresistable and forbidden glance back to the region of Sodom and Gomorrah, the Lord turned her into a pillar of salt.

So I said, Salt? Why salt? I found that the New Testament only uses the word salt, 6 times. All of these times it was symbolic. Jesus, said to remember that as a believer we are the salt of the earth (Matthew 5:13, Mark 9:50, Luke 14:34). As believers, another words...our attitudes and actions can cleanse and season and purify our surroundings...just as salt seasons, cleanses and purifies. So awesome, right!

When we respond graciously to someone who is ungracious, we season our world with salt. When we treat and irritable child (I have had one of these today) with kindness and tenderness, we season our homes that God has given us with salt. When we comfort the hurt, console the lonely, encourage the discouraged, or calm the unsettled, we season our world with salt!

As Godly women of Christ, we are all saltshakers (hopefully FULL ones!), busy sprinkling our world with the Christlike salt that flavors life!

Go get salty, cleanse, season or purify...and shake your salt all around!

Love to all,

Leah