The Importance Of Salt

 

Today's verse is Leviticus 2:13

And every oblation of thy meat offering shalt thou season with salt; neither shalt thou suffer the salt of the covenant of thy God to be lacking from thy meat offering: with all thine offerings thou shalt offer salt. 

    First, a meat offering, is not of an animal, as would be commonly understood today, but it is of fine flour, even unleavened bread, or wafers. But we are looking at the necessity of Salt. Jesus Christ has called himself the bread of life, but he has called us who have been identified in him as Salt. 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. Now we know that salt as two purposes. It adds, or enhances, flavor, and it also preserves. So, let us not be silent, but boldly claim our Lord’s goodness in thanksgiving, that our neighbours might see the goodness of the Lord that they might be preserved from his wrath which shall come when he removes the Salt from the earth. Amen.

To God be the Glory

Scott

Today’s reading is Leviticus 1-3, Psalm 27, Hebrews 2

Tomorrow’s reading will be Leviticus 4-7, Hebrews 3