BY LHARA TAMAYO YOU ARE THE SALT OF THE EARTH!

10-UNITY

20 SURPRISING USES
FOR SALT
MARY ELLEN PINKHAM

After reading the uses of salt, do you find Do you think salt is an appropriate name
salt significant? Why? for us? Why?

I find salt very significant and fundamental In my view, I don't think it's appropriate.
because it plays a lot of crucial roles in life. Salt and humans are precious and
One use for salt is to add flavor to food important. I think it's better to for us to be
while another important use is for called valuable and exquisite as sentient
preservation - preventing the putrefaction beings or individuals.
and spoiling of food. Additionally, in our
body, it can't function without some Why do you think Jesus calls us the salt

sodium. It's needed to transmit nerve of the Earth?

impulses, contract and relax muscle fibers,

and maintain a proper fluid balance. Salt In the bible, salt is metaphorically used as

is very significant in many different ways. the epitome of purity, of preservation, and

We use it in our daily life, in our cooking, it of expenses. Salt was a valued commodity.

can be used sometimes as a healing So precious that it was used as money.

ingredient and many more. Jesus calls us the salt of the earth because
we are valuable and precious. To 'be salt'
means to deliberately seek to influence
How do the uses of salt relate to use as
people in one's life. We are to be seasoning
persons?
in a bland, insipid and corrupted world.
Our words are to be seasoned with salt by
Just like salt that is very fundamental,
speaking the truth of the glorious gospel
significant and valuable, every human life
of grace with those who are dead in their
has value as a rare resource. As human
sins.
beings, it is our role to be a creative
sentient individual and add savor in life.