The Flavor of Life

It would be most difficult to live by the words of The Sermon on the Mount. Perhaps that is why so many don’t attempt it. Some of the words, as we are told of them, form particularly trying strictures. Take, for example:

“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.” (Matthew 5:13 KJV)

The Galilean seems to be speaking to his disciples here. But most followers would claim to be his disciples, so he must be speaking to all. The words are a little confusing. As far as one can tell, salt doesn’t lose its “savour” as long as it retains its basic chemical form of NaCl, representing a 1:1 ratio of sodium and chloride ions.

Being vastly cognizant of chemistry, the Galilean must have been alluding to a more devastating downfall than simply becoming tasteless in our representation of righteousness. He is warning us that we can become a completely different spiritual species if we depart from the true makeup of righteousness.

That’s scary. Maybe it is what produces television evangelists who preach the godliness of loving money and what it can buy.