Salt is supposed to be salty!
This week we are getting more into the actual teachings of Christ. Before we were covering things where Christ never even spoke! The first words we hear Him speak were when he was a young boy in the temple, and then when he spoke to John the Baptist when He was baptized. I'm coming to learn we don't have very much information or detail on His actual life and sayings. We are limited, at least now.
Now in Matthew 5:13, the Lord is giving what we know as the Sermon on the Mount. He 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." Honestly this is a little confusing to me and this analogy has never been clear to me. What my impression is, is that our covenants and priesthood can be taken away from us if we are not faithful and keeping commandments, and when it's taken away this is like us "losing our savor." And then we are left on our own, really by our own choice, since we are not useful to God's kingdom. It reminds me of Stake Conference today where someone mentioned that the only thing required to let evil prevail is for a good man to do nothing. If we don't act, we are salt that isn't salty!
I read a very solid talk by Mark E. Peterson from the October 1976 General Conference called "The Savor of Men." It's cool because he quotes Abraham Lincoln a lot about his beliefs in God and the Bible, and how he knew that a group of people like a nation could all as a whole lose faith. We essentially are like that. Each of us is part of the salt of the whole earth, and we need to work to be our part of the good. The world cannot be good unless the people in it are good. I think we should all be more mindful of how much we actually make a difference to those around us. That is, we can make even more difference if we try.
Now in Matthew 5:13, the Lord is giving what we know as the Sermon on the Mount. He 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." Honestly this is a little confusing to me and this analogy has never been clear to me. What my impression is, is that our covenants and priesthood can be taken away from us if we are not faithful and keeping commandments, and when it's taken away this is like us "losing our savor." And then we are left on our own, really by our own choice, since we are not useful to God's kingdom. It reminds me of Stake Conference today where someone mentioned that the only thing required to let evil prevail is for a good man to do nothing. If we don't act, we are salt that isn't salty!
I read a very solid talk by Mark E. Peterson from the October 1976 General Conference called "The Savor of Men." It's cool because he quotes Abraham Lincoln a lot about his beliefs in God and the Bible, and how he knew that a group of people like a nation could all as a whole lose faith. We essentially are like that. Each of us is part of the salt of the whole earth, and we need to work to be our part of the good. The world cannot be good unless the people in it are good. I think we should all be more mindful of how much we actually make a difference to those around us. That is, we can make even more difference if we try.
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