"Everyone will be salted with fire." Mark 9:49
Jesus used parables to communicate principles of the Kingdom of God. He said
each believer's life should have the same impact on his or her world as salt has
on food. Salt gives food flavor and brings out the best, while at the same time
it serves as a preservative.
What allows a Christian to become salty? Fire. God knows that each believer
needs a degree of testing by fire in order for Christ's fragrance to be
manifested. We cannot become salty without this deeper work of the Holy Spirit's
fire in our lives. Fire purifies all that is not of Christ. It takes away all
the impurities that prevent His nature from being revealed in us.
In this you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while you may have had
to suffer grief in all kinds of trials. These have come so that your faith-of
greater worth than gold, which perishes even though refined by fire-may be
proved genuine and may result in praise, glory and honor when Jesus Christ is
revealed (1 Peter 1:6-7). Are you a salty Christian? If not, pray a prayer that
the immature are unwilling to pray. Pray that God makes you a salty Christian.
It will result in praise and glory at the throne of God.
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