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The Salt of the Earth, June 3
Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost his savour,
wherewith shall it be salted? it is thenceforth good for nothing, but to
be cast out, and to be trodden under foot of men.
Matthew 5:13
.
God will work with the church, but not without their cooperation. May
every one of you who have tasted the good Word of God “let your light
so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your
Father which is in heaven” (
Matthew 5:16
). Jesus says, “Ye are the salt of
the earth: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be salted? It
is thenceforth good for nothing, but to be cast out, and to be trodden under
foot of men.” The saving salt, the savor of the Christian, is the love of Jesus
in the heart, the righteousness of Christ pervading the soul. If the professor
of religion would keep the saving efficacy of his faith, he must ever keep
the righteousness of Christ before him, and have the glory of God for his
rearward. Then the power of Christ will be revealed in life and character.
Oh, when we come to the pearly gates, and have an entrance into the
city of God, will anyone who enters there regret that he devoted his life
unreservedly to Jesus? Let us now love Him with undivided affections, and
cooperate with the heavenly intelligences, that we may be laborers together
with God, and by partaking of the divine nature, be able to reveal Christ to
others. Oh, for the baptism of the Holy Spirit! Oh, that the bright beams of
the Sun of Righteousness might shine into the chambers of mind and heart,
that every idol might be dethroned and expelled from the soul temple! Oh,
that our tongues might be loosened to speak of His goodness, to tell of His
power!
If you respond to the drawing of Jesus, you will not fail to have an
influence on somebody through the beauty and power of the grace of Christ.
Let us behold Him and become changed into the image of Him in whom
dwelleth all the fullness of the Godhead bodily, and realize that we are
accepted in the Beloved, “complete in him, which is the head of all principality
and power” (
Colossians 2:10
).—
Bible Echo, February 15, 1892
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