Hey there BCU Family!
I was honored to teach on the subject of salt years ago, last month, and I had a very special request (Hi Lydia and Mark!♥️💙), for an encore of “salt talk” just this week! For this three-part series, you will have the option of listening to our podcast (click here, or the BCU avatar below to listen), or, if you are short on time, reading the basic notes below, or you can do BOTH! In any case, we pray the podcast blesses you. If so, please thumbs up or leave a comment! Thank you and enjoy your study!
Podcast highlights:
- For years, salt have been told to lower or not to consume salt. On the contrary, God designed us to need salt in our lives.
- In today’s conversation, we will take a look at the history of salt and why it is essential to have in our diets and in our daily interactions with people.
A while back, the Lord blessed me teach on salt at a conference, and I thought I’d share a condensed version of what He gave me with all of you. In Matthew 5:13, Jesus said, “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.“
Why salt? Let’s start by taking a look at the history of salt and why we need it in our natural bodies and in The Body of Christ.
Salt comes from the ocean, and the salt water is usually channeled into smaller, shallow pools of water. The wind and sun evaporate the water and as the salt crystallizes, it is, in some cases, hand-harvested by sauniers. Depending on the type of salt being harvested, this labor-intensive process can sometimes take up to five years to complete!
The Latin word for salt is salarium, meaning ‘pertaining to salt’, but also is where our word “salary” comes from. History tells us salt was a precious, expensive, highly valued item of trade and sometime used for monetary exchange. In fact, some sources say Roman soldiers were even paid in salt! That may sound strange now, but back then when salt was your salary, you were living LARGE! Now that you have some background, let’s take a look at why we need salt.
Salt gets a bad rap in part, because our diets have changed to include more processed, fatty and preserved food that has lots of table salt. Table salt is not all bad, just not as good as natural sea salt is. Pure sea salt has minerals like sulphate, magnesium, calcium, potassium, bicarbonate, bromide, borate, strontium, and fluoride—–the body needs micro-nutrients to function. While table salt originally comes from sea salt, in its processing, those minerals are stripped away and iodine added in. (Side note: Speaking as a researcher, and not a trained and licensed medical professional, rather than consuming processed table salt, I suggest getting the sea salt and eat more wild-caught fish and certain veggies for iodine). 😉
Pure sea salt is needed in your body because it:
–Prevents muscle cramps
–Provides essential nutrients
–Enhances nutrient absorption
Pure sea salt also regulates:
–Blood pressure (in conjunction with water)
–Blood sugar
–Sleep
This is just a fraction of what this needed nutrient does for us!! In essence, salt regulates your body, helps you function and keeps a lot of the “bad” out. Now let’s look at the spiritual need for salt.
Salt regulates the body of Christ by keeping the bad out:
Now the works of the flesh are evident, which are: adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lewdness, idolatry, sorcery, hatred, contentions, jealousies, outbursts of wrath, selfish ambitions, dissensions, heresies, envy, murders, drunkenness, revelries, and the like, which I tell you beforehand, just as I also told you in time past, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God (Galatians 5:19-21 NKJV).
It also keeps us functioning by keeping the good in like love, joy, peace, long suffering, gentleness, goodness, temperance, faith and meekness (Galatians 5:22). With the salt Jesus gives you on the inside, it shows up on the outside!
As a needed spiritual nutrient, Jesus commanded that we “have salt in yourselves and peace with one another” (Mark 9:50). In our next installment, we’ll take a look at what that means and why salt is vital in friendships and covenants, Amen? Please stay tuned!
So what are your thoughts on our topic-du-jour? Did you know that salt was so vital to your body? How awesome is it that God made it so we need salt for regulating our spiritual lives as well? Isn’t God amazing? Please head to the comments section below and let’s chat some more!
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