With all thine offerings thou shalt offer salt

Bible Reading: Leviticus 1-4

Leviticus 2:13 And every oblation of thy meat offering shalt thou season with salt; neither shalt thou suffer the salt of the covenant of thy God to be lacking from thy meat offering: with all thine offerings thou shalt offer salt.

Salt was added to all the offerings made by the Israelites to the Lord. It is called the salt of the covenant. God made a covenant with the Israelites and he would accept their sacrifices made according to his commandment. The salt that they added reminded them of his preserving covenant and of the savor of the smell of their sacrifices to the Lord.

As followers of Christ, we are told not only to offer sacrifices...

Hebrews 13:15 By him therefore let us offer the sacrifice of praise to God continually, that is, the fruit of our lips giving thanks to his name.

And we are to be a sacrifice...

Romans 12:1 I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.

So the Lord Jesus tells us that salt must be offered with the sacrifice:

Mark 9:49-50 For every one shall be salted with fire, and every sacrifice shall be salted with salt. 50 Salt is good: but if the salt have lost his saltness, wherewith will ye season it? Have salt in yourselves, and have peace one with another.

Salt is a symbol of the covenant of grace the Lord Jesus Christ has made with us. We are to be salty sacrifices offered to the Lord. Are you salty? Is your life seasoned with the grace of the Lord? Does your eternal life add flavor and show the preserving power of God to the lost world around you?

Matthew 5:13 Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be salted? it is thenceforth good for nothing, but to be cast out, and to be trodden under foot of men.

Ye are the salt of the earth...are you salty? Christians that aren't salty are good for nothing. But salty Christians bring glory to God!

In Christ,
Rody