Salt makes everything taste better. If I have to choose between sweet and salty, I choose salt. In fact, I love dark chocolate with sea salt. So even my favorite sweets have a little salt in them.
I know that moderation is good in all things, including salt, but salt is something to celebrate.
In ancient days, spices were valued like precious metals and gems. Salt was even used to seal the deal of the most trusted treaties or agreements.
The phrase "covenant of salt" (Numbers 18:19, 2 Chronicles 13:5 and Leviticus 2:13) occurs only three times in the Bible. A covenant is an agreement between two or more parties. An agreement that involves salt symbolizes one that is meant to be perpetual, not corruptible and indissoluble. In ancient custom, salt was indispensable at formal meals. Formal meals that followed a ratification of friendship and alliance would include salt. There was security and trust in a “salt treaty “. God's promise to David that his would be a "perpetual throne" was considered to be a salt treaty. From the House of David would come the promised Messiah.
(I find all of this so interesting. Sorry if it is boring to some...but the Old and New Testament connections always feel like a mystery unfolding.)
God holds eternity in His hand. Our grasp of perpetual and forever has human limitations. We say things like "I took forever in the drive through line." "Forever" is a word we use but have not really lived. How do we wrap our human minds around eternity?
We were called to be salt and light to the world. Do we just add flavor or are we the perpetual carriers of the Good News?
“You are the salt of the earth. But if the salt loses its saltiness, how can it be made salty again? It is no longer good for anything, except to be thrown out and trampled underfoot." -Matthew 5:13
Be salty. Stay salty.
Today, I am grateful for salt.
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