2月20日
标 题： 你们是盐
经 节： 你们是世上的盐。盐若失了味，怎能叫它再咸呢？以后无用，不过丢在外面，被人践踏了。（马太福音五章13节）
神的百姓是祂的当然代理人，管理这个被罪腐化的堕落世界。神的计画是委托你造福人群，并且持守正直。当今的时代，参与社会是敬虔生活中非常重要的一环。神与你同在，使得其他人也能得着祂。祂的救恩可以释放有不良癖好的人、恢复破碎的家庭、医治过去的伤痛、重建刚愎任性的孩子，以及安慰绝望的人。只要愿意让基督借着你彰显祂的生命，这所有的一切都可能发生在你周围朋友的身上。如果我们与主没有正确的关系，耶稣说我们就像失了味的盐，一点用处也没有。如此一来，神给予的恩典与大能，就不能借着我们传播给其他的人。我们如何检验自己的生命“咸性”仍在？看看我们的家庭。我们是否保护家庭不受外界有害的影响？检验我们工作场所。工作环境是否因我们的缘故，而遏止一些罪恶的影响？观察我们的社区。是否因为我们的参与，使社区变得更好？我们的教会又是如何？我们被神使用，以至于周遭的属灵事物变得更好。这就是我们作盐的证据。如果周遭的人灵性堕落或退步，我们就该到神面前寻求，容许神调整我们的生活，好叫我们能“有味”。
You
Are Salt
“You
are the salt of the earth; but if the salt loses its flavor, how shall it be
seasoned? It is then good for nothing but to be thrown out and trampled underfoot
by men. (Matthew 5:13)
God’s people are His preserving agents for
a world that is corrupted and degenerating because of sin. Your life is
designed and commissioned by God to enhance a community and to preserve what is
good and right. There is deep significance today for a godly life that is
involved in its community. The presence of Christ in you makes all that He is
available to others. His salvation can free an addict, mend a broken home, heal
the pain of the past, restore a wayward child, and comfort a grieving heart.
All of this is available to those around you as Christ expresses His life
through you.
If we are not in a right relationship with
our Lord, however, Jesus said we are like salt that has lost its saltiness and
is, therefore, good for nothing. None of God’s saving grace and power can be
dispensed through us to others. How do we test the “saltiness” of our life?
Look at our family. Are we preserving it from the destructive influences that
surround it? Examine our workplace. Are the sinful influences in our work
environment being halted because we are there? Observe our community. Is it a
better place because we are involved in it? What about our church? The evidence
that we have been used by God as a preserving agent is that things are becoming
spiritually better around us instead of worse. If people around us are
deteriorating spiritually, we need to go to our Lord and allow Him to adjust
our lives so that we can be used to preserve others.
