The Salt Of The Earth

For the past 2 days I have had this annoying tooth pain. I have a sore gum and it is just killing me every time I put pressure on it. I am quite tired of chewing on the right side of my mouth...THE THINGS WE TAKE FOR GRANTED.

So as I was cleaning up the kitchen, a thought popped into my head as I picked up the salt shaker to put away. Maybe I could rinse with warm salt water? Now as a
kids, my mother would make me do this when I had a sore thought, it was pretty gross tasting and very unpleasant to a child.

I prepared my warm sea salt water and swooshed it around my mouth about 5 times. I really was hoping that something beneficial would happen so that I would have some relief. To any doctor or nurse this may seem mundane, but to me it was the coolest. 30 minutes after I rinsed with the water, I have almost no more pain. None. Nothing. It is amazing.

Maybe God gave me that tooth ache for the lesson I learned?

I remember how Jesus told Christians to be the salt of the earth, no actually he said that we were the salt.

There are so many people out there hurting with an "ache" and they are tired of living with it. Somehow we must not be rubbing off on them. Are we, the salt, even in contact with them. Salt brings healing and preserves and I feel like there is not enough of that going on anymore. Divorce is on the rise, adultery, lies, cheating, rudeness, lack of love, criticism, the list could go on forever. I am reminding myself of all this too. I need to be putting my salt on the wounds, just like I did for my mouth. We all need to lift up our salt shaker lives and pour some on the hurting people in our world instead of not caring.

Salt always changes the food in some way. Always.

Has the church lost it's saltiness? I think many have. Can we fix the problem before the salt is thrown out? It may be too late, only God knows. Have we stopped going to the places that needs healing and help? I think we have. We need revival.