Life feeling turned upside down lately?

You may be moving from the salt box into the salt shaker.

You know maybe you have already been being salt in a situation. And for the most part pretty satisfied with your salty self there. Then the most uncomfortable thing happens. Your time there is finished. Completed. Nothing left for you to do there. How bewildering and perhaps even painful this sudden loss of place or position and seeming meaning to your life and purpose.

Maybe some of you like engaging CHANGE in life. Me? No not so much. Give me stability with a bit of challenge mixed in but major change is not something I hunt for as part of my life pattern.

Consider something though. Salt goes through changes to get to the place of being useable. It has to be mined from underground deposits or from salt water deposits then processed to clean and separate it from other things we wouldn’t want to eat…In part of the refining it is set to dry in the sun letting the water evaporate…maybe you don’t feel turned upside down you just feel unclean and clumpy or left to dry out. But you are of great value, oh salty one and are in process to increase your value.

Then you get put in a place that seems set away and dark. You are clean. You are ready for purposeful things but you are in a round box up on a shelf. You are being salt but not to full potential yet. And then suddenly you move or your world moves and you are poured into something small and very possibly transparent, and set a bit further into the light but to be used. To be turned upside down when needed. To season. To preserve. To cleanse. To heal. You are shaken. And it is for a purpose and a plan in the Master’s hand.

You may think, I am just a mom, dad, grandma, grandpa, kid, student, store clerk, laborer, or whatever upscale or low scale thing you may think of yourself and occupation. But whatever shaker God has placed you in, YOU ARE SALT. What if you feel life is too much of the same old, same old for now in those places? You may very well be a steady seasoning or preservation right there where you are. And if you feel a bit shaken by life these days realize you are found useful for yet another purpose by God. Be glad. Really. Being poured out can be a good thing!

Matthew 5:13 You are the salt of the earth but if the salt has lost its saltiness how shall it be made salty again?