Saturday 23 May 2015

BE INVOLVED - 21/05/15

🌺🌐BE INVOLVED🌐🌸
 
🌺THEME: THE DEFINITION OF THE CHRISTIAN LIFE!
 
🌸DATE: 21-05-15
 
🌺VERSE: Matthew 5:13 "You are the salt of the earth. But if the salt loses it's saltiness, how can it be made salty again? It is no longer good for anything, except to be thrown out and trampled by men."
 
🌺FROM THE VERSE: The church exists for the world's sake more than for its own. Christ's disciples are to be saviors of others. God's people are chosen, not for their own comfort, but to show men beauty of the Divine life, and to raise them to the same level. It is QUALITY MORE THAN QUANTITY that does God's work in the world. All history and progress are at bottom the life-history of the few. It should be one great object of our prayer and effort to keep up the moral and spiritual standard of the chosen few. We sweeten the world, purify, and enrichen its work, its thoughts, its social intercourse, its joys; and we seek to prevent corruption to its laws and literature. The godly must nourish the earth spiritually as the salt is intended to nourish the food. The salt has also a consuming power; something sharp, biting, and aggressive in it. Salt laid on a wound is painful and Christian often pains men to heal them. The moral influence of the Christian, applies to the church in its collective capacity. Christian character is composed of faith and works in union. Faith without works kills; and works without faith are destitute of merit to save the soul. When faith and works are united, they give life and efficiency to Christian character. Christian character is the antidote of vice in the individual and in society. Christian character enables the soul to digest and profit by the various dispensations of providence; and sweetens life's disappointments, and changes its crosses into crowns. Our doctrine must be very sound and good. We have to save the world from universal vice and crime by our influence and example. The doctrine of the gospel is as salt; penetrating, quick, and powerful; it reaches the heart; and it cleanses. Let's show the "flavor" of God's grace; and promote a thirst for SALVATION. Men have nothing in them but what is tasteless, till they have been seasoned with the salt of heavenly doctrine. A DISCIPLE of the KINGDOM who does not live like a disciple of the KINGDOM is worth about as much as tasteless salt.
 
🌸🙏Pray inline with the verse and from your discoveries that we may salt our communities/neighbors/families/nations/countries by coming into contact with them as salt which works when it is in close contact with the thing it is to work upon. Pray that we may work silently, inconspicuously, and gradually like salt. ABOVE all; pray that as Christians, we may not lose our TASTE.
 
🌺We don't salt a living thing; therefore our communities are dead and they need preservation from decaying.
 
🌸😄WITHOUT SALT, HUMAN LIFE CANT BE SUSTAINED. REAL SALT DOES NOT LOSE ITS SALTINESS.

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