Glimpses of Truth

Make Me Thirsty

At this time of the year, doctors tell us we need more fluids for our bodies.  Just normal, daily activities cause us to perspire, and with summer and its extra activities, we lose more of our body’s fluids.  So we are encouraged by doctors to drink more juice and more fluids to replace what we have lost.

There are other times that we need something to quench our thirst.  It’s normally after we have had something to eat that’s very salty.  All the fresh vegetables that come from my garden seem to taste just a little better when they are salted.  I don’t like to use a lot of salt myself, but just a little on those fresh vegetables makes them so much better.

However, the more salt that is used, the thirstier you become.  When salt is mentioned in the Bible, what do you think about?  Perhaps you are reminded of Lot’s wife, who became a pillar of salt as God’s punishment for her disobedience; or perhaps you think of the New Testament illustration of how the Lord Jesus referred to His people as “the salt of the earth,” Matthew 5:13.

So, as I began to think about salt, especially at this time of the year, it led me to think of the fact that salt produces thirst.  Since we as Christians are “the salt of the earth,” are we effective in causing those around us to become “thirsty” for what they see in us?  A salty person doesn’t have to wave his flag; he doesn’t have to make a big to-do about everything.  But he does his work silently, gradually, continually, and, if so, effectively.  Salt does its work by being brought into close contact with the thing upon which it is to work.

There may be those around you today who are thirsty.  They may not know what they are thirsty for, but may we as believers in Christ so affect those around us that they become thirsty for the things of God.

So salt must be brought into close contact with whatever it is meant to affect if it is to do any good.  Believers are the salt of the earth; therefore, we must be willing to be rubbed into the problems that are all around us.  We must not be willing to be Sunday salt shakers, far removed from a needy and lost humanity.  A box of garden seeds looks very attractive with its pretty colored packages, but those seeds must be emptied from the pretty packages into the dirty earth to die and to come up again if we are to have anything to eat.  Christians can look pretty enough in church on Sunday morning, but that’s not enough to cause those around us to become thirsty, because they look at us on Monday morning and on Saturday night.

Believer, don’t let the salt go out of your life.  People are still looking for the eternal quenching of their spiritual thirst.