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Salt, Anyone?
I thought this was interesting. Perhaps you will too.
Matthew 5:13 (NKJV)13 “You are the salt of the earth; but if the salt loses its flavor, how shall it be seasoned? It is then good for nothing but to be thrown out and trampled underfoot by men. source
SALT A chemical compound composed primarily of sodium chloride (NaCl) used to preserve, purify, and season food.
Overview
Salt is one of the most common substances on the earth and cannot be destroyed by fire or time. Also known as “white gold,” it is one of the most significant substances in history, along with iron, gold, and wheat. In ancient societies it was a valuable social and economic commodity.
II, R. G. R. (2016). Salt. In J. D. Barry, D. Bomar, D. R. Brown, R. Klippenstein, D. Mangum, C. Sinclair Wolcott, … W. Widder (Eds.), The Lexham Bible Dictionary. Bellingham, WA: Lexham Press.
Okay. In summary, salt is used to preserve, purify and season; and salt cannot be destroyed by fire or time.
I’d love to hear your spiritual parallels Let us be salty! :)
Chazaq!
Through the Roof
The Bible is big business. Have you perused a magazine lately to see just what is being offered? I have a catalog. 68 pages. Yes! 68 pages of Bibles.
Such as: New Study Bibles
Church & Recovery Bibles
Economy & Outreach Bibles
Children’s Bibles
Pew Bibles
Church Bibles
Discipleship & Recovery Bibles
Student & Teen Bibles
Bible Bargains
Parallel & Wide-Margin Bibles
Specialty Bibles & Accessories
Journaling & Note-Taking Bibles
There are more.
My point? Glad you ask.
Selling Bibles is a lucrative business, I think. However, I also think it’s not the business GOD was fostering when He had the Manuscript penned. Not that He begrudges the printing, the selling or even the acquiring of a financial profit on the making of Bibles. I really don’t think He minds paying the oxen for a good day’s work. :)
Having said that, let me step on my own toes: if all those Bibles sold were faithfully, consistently read and obeyed, we’d be living in a better culture than this.
2 Timothy 3:16 All Scripture is inspired by God and useful for teaching, for reproof, for restoration, and for training in righteousness, 17 so that the person belonging to God may be capable, fully equipped for every good deed. source
See what I mean?
So.
Are we going to make the reading, studying and obeying the Bible our business? When we do I dare say our ‘profits’ will go through the roof!
Speaking of through the roof. Here’s a story about through the roof.
Luke 5:17-39 or
Mark 2:1-12
[My Beloved has read his a few times (well, more than a few), from the aforementioned addresses, he immediately recalled the event. ]
