Pass the Salt Please...

Season all your grain offerings with salt. Do not leave the salt of the covenant of your God out of your grain offerings; add salt to all your offerings

 ~ Leviticus 2:13 ~

 

To eat salt with one is to partake of his hospitality, to derive subsistence from him; and hence he who did so was bound to look after the host's interests. (Ezra 4:14, "...we eat the salt of the palace...") A covenant of salt was a covenant of perpetual obligation (Num 18:19, 2 Chr 13:5) Disciples are likened to salt, with reference to its cleansing and preserving uses (Matt 5:13)
 Leviticus 2:13 tells us, "do not leave the salt of the covenant out of your offering, add salt to all your offerings"

 

Christ' death and resurrection was the end of sacrifices for atonement of sin, but we are still to offer sacrifices to God. Romans 12:1 tells us "offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God--this is your spiritual act of worship" Psalm 50:23 says, "He who sacrifices thank offerings honors me, and he prepares the way so that I may show him the salvation of God."

So we as Christians are not only to add the salt of the covenant to our daily lives, but also to our praise and worship. We who eat the salt of the palace, the salt of the covenant, that is Christ, the one that cleanses us, purifies us, and preserves us, let us be ever indebted to Him, let us forever look after His interests, as we are His representatives, His Royal Priests, a Holy People set apart.(Col 3:17, 1 Peter 2:9, Deut 14:2, Ps 4:3)  The way we live and the way we treat people should be with the King's best interest at heart. (Ezra 4:14 "...we are under obligation to the palace, and it is not proper for us to see the king dishonored")
Jesus' interest is Loving God and Loving People. (Saved Souls)

So let our choices in what we do, where we go, and what we watch and listen to, be salted and bring honor to God. let us always season our conversations with salt too, so that our words are as if they are the very words of God, encouraging, filled with grace and hope, and for the lifting up of others.

Romans 15:1-6 "We who are strong ought to bear with the failings of the weak and not to please ourselves. Each of us should please his neighbor for his good, to build him up. For even Christ did not please himself but, as it is written: 'The insults of those who insult you have fallen on me.' For everything that was written in the past was written to teach us, so that through endurance and the encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope. May the God who gives endurance and encouragement give you a spirit of unity among yourselves as you follow Christ Jesus, so that with one heart and mouth you may glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ"