Leviticus 2-3

13 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.

The easy take from these chapters is to give God back our first fruits.  The best of what we have....not the left overs.  Verse 13 caught my eye....the part about the "salt of the covenant."  I typed it into the old google machine, and this is what came up.  Obviously, salt was huge in their culture.  It was an essential to their life.

Jesus said, “You are the salt of the earth. But if the salt loses its saltiness, how can it be made salty again? It is no longer good for anything, except to be thrown out and trampled underfoot.” (Matthew 5:13)

Who is the salt of the earth? Me? Christians? What does this really mean? Do we even have an idea of how important salt is?

Did you know that God made a covenant of salt with David? I didn’t know such a thing existed. It is listed only three times in the Old Testament.

In Numbers 18:19, it is called an “everlasting covenant of salt” and in 2 Chronicles 13:5, “the kingdom was given from the Lord, the God of Israel, to David and his descendants forever by a covenant of salt.” And in Leviticus 2:13, it reads a little differently, “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.”

God made convents with people using more than salt. He used a rainbow after the great flood to show he wouldn’t destroy us by a flood again. God used the stars to show Abraham how numerous his inhabitants would be. He used tablets of stone when he presented the Ten Commandments.

But with David, it was salt.

Salt has many uses. It is used to season and to cure. Before refrigeration, salt was used to preserve food. Wars have been fought over salt. During the Civil War, one of Florida’s chief uses to the Confederacy was salt. In Roman times, soldiers were paid in salt. Did you know the word “salary” is a derivative of salt?

So, when Jesus calls us the salt of the earth, we need to pay attention.

We’re told in Colossians 4:6, “Let your conversation be always full of grace, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how to answer everyone.”

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