February 21

UTILITY PLAYER

Father, thank You for bringing me to this place and this time today. I ask You to speak to me right now, and to let Your Word breathe life into my heart. Please use these next few moments to bring me to more of a fullness of You and to learn more of Your Glory and how to leave the footprints of Jesus everywhere I go today. In Jesus Name I pray. Amen!

Read Matthew 5:13

Pick up a dropped egg. Soothe a bee sting. Eliminate a grease fire. Clean up oven spills. Set color. Kill poison ivy. Make cream whip more easily and egg whites whip faster and higher. Test for rotten eggs. Clean the brown spots (from starch) off a nonstick soleplate (the bottom of your iron). Repel fleas. Kill grass growing in cracks in the cement or between patio stones. Clean a glass coffee pot. Halt the mountain of suds from an overflowing washing machine. Clean artificial flowers. Keep windows frost-free. Clean tarnished copper. Keep radishes safe in the garden. Clean coffee and tea stains from china cups. Keep potatoes and apples from turning brown once they're sliced. Clean a cutting board. Preserve food. Serve as an interesting paper weight. Bless a new couple on their wedding day. Ward off evil spirit (Middle Ages thought).

Listed above are over 20 random uses of salt. There are many many more. Some people claim there are over 14,000 different uses for this simple rock. Salt actually is a rock. It is the only rock we eat. Well I ate gravel on the playground in elementary school, but I am pretty sure humans are not supposed to do that. A guy named Mark Kurlansky wrote a book about salt. It is almost 500 pages long. When I first started reading it I did not know what to expect. Several pages into the book, though, I was captivated and really intrigued by just how much world history was influenced by this simple rock.

Salt has to be one of the most multifunctional natural occurring substances that exists on earth. If we are going to be the salt of the earth then we also have to be multi-faceted as well. We have to be able to relate to all people, like Paul did when he declared: “I have become all things to all men so that by all possible means I might save some.” (I Corinthians 9:22) This does not mean we change who we are in a shallow or in insincere way or that we water down truth. Rather we need to be able to relate to anyone and be approachable by all. Also we need to be continually repackaging the truth in ways that can reach everyone.

Today I encourage you to be a utility player for God. Be able to play many different positions and so salt the earth more than in just one spot.

Leave His footprints as you walk today!