AUG 3

Matthew 5:13
Memorise Matthew 5:13
“…but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be salted?”

Salt is a small but potent and precious mineral found naturally in our Earth. If you’ve ever cooked or baked, you will know that just one pinch of salt will change the flavour of food considerably! If you don’t believe so, try food that has no salt at all! Salt is one of the oldest and most indispensable seasonings known to man, and it has apparently more than 14,000 uses. It can clean, disinfect, purify and preserve, and in small amounts it is essential for our health. Wars were even fought over it! Salt can be a remedy for a bland meal, but there is no remedy for unsavoury salt - salt that is no longer ‘salty’. With what can you season salt with to bring back its savour, saltiness? Nothing. “Salt is good: but if the salt have lost his saltness, wherewith (with what) will ye season it?” (Mark 9:50). It is to be thrown away, out in the street, fit only to be trampled upon. The once precious and potent salt is useless.

Christians are likened to the salt of all the earth. They are its only salt, and are unique and special. They are Christ’s ‘antidote’ to sin and death. No other religion is true, frees from sin, or leads to eternal life. In obeying Christ’s commands, Christians become that sanctifying influence in the world, showing forth a witness and testimony of what it means to be like Christ. However, when they compromise Bible truths, accept sin and embrace falsehood, they lose their savour, and become ineffective witnesses. They are not called to be ‘bland’ and neutral – by not taking sides and making a stand against compromise and sin. When they become like this, they have lost their ‘savour’. What do you do with things that once worked but don’t anymore? You throw it away.

The word ‘Bible’ in Bible-Presbyterian is a clear statement that our Church is a Bible-believing and Bible-honouring Church. It is our faithfulness to the Word of God, not just in knowledge but also in practice, that makes us as salt with savour. Without the love of and defence of the Bible we will definitely lose our savour and be worthless as we slowly but surely depart from the truth and fall into sin and apostasy. Bible-believing and Bible- honouring - this is the defining distinctive of our BP Church.

Thought: Is your life a Bible-believing and Bible-honouring one?
Prayer: May I live a Bible-believing and Bible-honouring life all the days of my life.