DIY DEVO - Pass the Salt

When you call your children to dinner, just have salt on the table.  That's it.  Just salt.  When they ask you what's for dinner, just tell them salt.  Of course, they are going to complain and ask what's going and mess with them a little.  Ask, "What's wrong with salt?" and "You don't like salt?"  But,  after a minute or two, tell them that you were just kidding and serve the real meal.  Then, as you eat, you can talk to them about the salt.  

I would never just give you salt, because that is not the purpose of salt.  Salt is not the main course.  No one goes to a five star restaurant and says, "I'm here for the salt."  Salt is used to season food. It keeps us hydrated and sustains us.  Also, in the time of Jesus, it was used to preserve food.  It has many good uses and it is very important, but salt is not the main course.

Jesus called us the "salt of the earth."  That means that we are to help preserve the world by teaching people about Jesus and living out our faith for the world to see.  Jesus said in the Gospel of Matthew 5:16 that we are to, "Let your light so shine before others, that they see your good works and glorify your Father in heaven."  But just like with salt, we are not the main course.  We are here to use our lives to point others to Jesus.  

It is never only about or all about us, so we need to be careful that we don't just use our lives just for our own glory or our own good.  We need to make sure we are considering how everything we do, right down to the food we eat, the clothes we wear and the cars we drive reflect Jesus to the world.  Not in a legalistic way, but because we want the world to know Christ so they can have true joy and peace.  

A good way to keep our faith and our lives in perspective throughout our lives is to remember, we are the salt. We play an important role and we are very needed, but we are not the main course - that's Jesus.  


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