Hello wonderful children of the Holy One! I am so blessed to finally find time to write to you all. God is working in my life and I am truly overwhelmed. I just had to stop and look up the definition for overwhelmed. We use it so often do we know what it means? Well in case this has now got you interested and wanting to know the answer it means to affect deeply in mind or emotionally. haha Wow so that is so true God has been affecting my mind and my emotions. I don’t know if yall know this but I have been very busy with work. I still try and make sure I have time with the Lord and take a hold of opportunities to go to church. Well he has spoken to me and tells me things that gets me thinking and then when I get the answer I become so emotionally. Yes usually I cry mostly tears of joy but sometimes tears of repentance. God is blessing me with some great friendships. I just wanted to write a good note to you all but something at the same time will overwhelm you. Trust me if you take part in this you will be blessed. Okay so I want to talk about Salt and Light. Okay, so many people tell me that they want to do God’s will and that they want to be the Salt and Light of the earth. Well do you know what it means? First of all what are some characteristics of salt?
We can do this together!
1.It’s white.
2. Enhances flavor.
3. Preserves.
I don’t know about yall but I believe he is hinting toward the enhancing of flavor. Why would he say this? Was Jesus just really hungry? Well let’s take a look at pure salt and what it does.
1. It NEVER looses it’s flavor. However when impurities come into the picture it can lose some of it’s flavor.
Hmmm so can we lose our flavor? I believe so. When impurities come into our lives we can lose that which makes us stand apart. We are no longer as strong or as different among the rest of the spices. Let’s stop right here for a second go into your cupboard and count how many different spices you have.
How many did you have? I bet if you love to cook you had quite a few different kinds. Look at our world if the pure at heart christians are salt and all the other spices are the lost salt stands alone in that cupboard. It is outnumbered. SO many times it can feel like that to us and we can get caught up well it is just a little gossip here, a curse word there, and so many more and no longer are we the pure salt.
Okay so what if we have lost some of our flavor what happens? Well again back to our spices if one of them no longer has flavor we just throw it out. Ouch! So God couldn’t possibly be saying that we would not be able to be used for the good of Him is he? That is for you to decide. But if it is that is truly an eye opener for some of us. (myself included)
Okay so I believe my audience is smart how would you say light would come into play? Let’s think dark world hmmm light is bright oh I get it we would light up the world. How do we do this?
Did you ever think of this… We are not the light. Before I get nasty emails bare with me. We are not the light it is God in us that makes the light shine. God is the light. We so often say our world needs the light. Well they do not need us. We can not save them from Hell. God can He is the light and He can save them. We are to help people see His light in us. SO basically Jesu is the sun haha(son) and we are the moon we illuminate him. We use his light to shine.
So if we want to do this how do we? Good question I’m glad you asked!
1. Let the light be visible. Be seen by the world.
2. Glorify God and let people see it is not you or some happy pill that makes you this way it is the Lord Jesus Christ.
Well I think I have got you thinking at least I hope so. Go out be the Salt and the radiate that Light. Thank you so much for being overwhelmed with me!
God Bless, Christy
that was good , thanks