You Are The Salt

Last weekend, I had a mishap on my bike 🚲 and sliced open the back of my foot.

My hubby has been doctoring it at home for me, and we avoided having to get stitches, but because of where it’s located, and the fact that when I walk- it shifts, healing has been a challenge.

I had been using peroxide and triple antibiotic ointment on it, but when I had a chiropractor appointment the other day, he asked me if I had been soaking it at all.

That had never actually occurred to me to do! But he said that soaking it in an epsom salt bath 🛁 would help speed up the healing process. So I am definitely doing that! (And bonus— I also get to relax while I’m in the tub! 🪴 🕯️)

But as I was laying there soaking the other day, I thought “Of course! This make so much sense!”
Salt is known to help heal wounds and that is why when someone has a sore throat, it’s recommended that they gargle salt water.

I also know the benefit of spiritually “soaking” (spending time in the awareness of the presence of God, through worship and praise) — especially when I have a soul wound like grief that I am nursing.

But for the very first time a new thought popped into my mind as I soaked in my salty, spearmint-scented water.

And not just a thought, but a verse:

“𝒴ℴ𝓊 𝒶𝓇ℯ 𝓉𝒽ℯ 𝓈𝒶𝓁𝓉 ℴ𝒻 𝓉𝒽ℯ ℯ𝒶𝓇𝓉𝒽…” (from Matthew 5:13.) 🧂🌎

I had thought about this verse in other ways before, but for the first time it occurred to me in 𝓉𝒽𝒾𝓈 way.

Jesus is the water. 💧
He does the healing.
His presence is what brings spiritual relief to people.
But He chooses 𝓊𝓈, for whatever reason,
to be the salt!

This post isn’t meant to be incredibly theological, but rather to get us thinking about the amazing role we are blessed to be called upon to play in others’ lives.

As I think about salt,
I think about tears.
All the tears of the different heartaches I have gone through in my life.

But God said not one tear is wasted.
He collects them.
He puts them to use.

He doesn’t cause the things that bring us grief,
but He does help us repurpose our pains to help others find healing in the midst of theirs.

The salt 🧂 of our tear-filled seasons, plus the water” of His Spirit, I believe,
forms a soak, of sorts,
that helps bring relief to others in their pain.

And others have done the same for us. 💔❤️‍🩹❤️

As we hear their testimonies
of how, though life was hard-
God was and is good-
some of the grime comes off our souls.
Some of the dirt and the bitterness
that the enemy tried to smear on us
washes off.

We are reminded (or made aware for the first time) — that this life, these bodies, aren’t our forever condition — it’s all temporary.
All the pain. All the cuts. All the scars.

One day He will wash it all away.
And we will be 𝒻𝓊𝓁𝓁𝓎 restored,
if we are His and He is ours. ❤️

Until then…
He doesn’t allow us to suffer in pain alone.

He sends His Spirit.

And He sends His people- His salt.

We can be “salty” in the best of ways.
Quite the opposite of what that means in this world.