Salt Is For-Saking

# 563 - Today's Du-votional comes from: Mr 9:49 "For everyone will be seasoned with fire, and every sacrifice will be seasoned with salt.

You can't read this and not think of the Old Testament system of sacrifice. We read in Le 2:13, “And every oblation (offering) of thy meal-offering shalt thou season with salt; neither shalt thou suffer the salt of the covenant of thy God to be lacking from thy meal-offering: with all thine oblations (offerings) thou shalt offer salt.

But how does this play out in the New Testament where such sacrifices are no longer necessary because of the ultimate sacrifice of Jesus?

Jesus is speaking here of His followers. They will all be tested with trials, and every sacrifice (every follower) will be seasoned with salt. Here's the thing about salt....it is a forsaker. It gives itself up to meat to make it taste better. It gives itself up to hard water to make it soft. It gives itself up to icy roads to make them drivable.

Jesus is the salt that we need to be seasoned with. He forsook everything for us, He gave Himself up for us, and now He lives in His followers bringing His forsaking qualities with Him. Therefore, we must be forsakers too as He lives through us, and helps us to say no the devil, the world, and our flesh.

Believe it or not, God has spiritual tastebuds. (We read in Revelation how He will spit out the lukewarm) It is Jesus who removes the putrid taste of sin from us, and helps us to forsake sin and the ways of the world in order to be a palatable sacrifice to God.

Thank You Jesus for forsaking all for me. Help me now to forsake those things that would draw me away from You.