SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 6/27/2020 10:23 AM
My Worship Time Focus:
PT-4 “Being Salt”
Bible Reading & Meditation Reference: Matthew 5:13
Message of the
verses: “13
“You are the salt of the earth; but if the salt has become tasteless, how can
it be made salty again? It is no longer good for anything, except to be
thrown out and trampled under foot by men.”
It is my desire to finish this
sub-section “Being Salt” in this SD this morning. I realize that this has been
a long section to look at but I believe that it was surely worth taking the
time to look at it.
Being a child of God it is important
to remember that we are the temples of the Holy Spirit, as Christians represent
God’s presence here on earth. Christians
are the salt that prevents the entire earth from degenerating even more rapidly
than it is at this time. As I think
about all the troubles that are happening in our country I have to believe that
if it were not for believers in this country that things would be far
worse. All I have to do is read from the
book of Revelation in chapters 6-19 to find out what it will be like without
the church in the world.
John MacArthur tells the story of a
lady from Scotland which I will quote at this time. “Helen Ewing was saved as a young girl in Scotland
and gave her life completely to the lordship of Christ. When she died at the age of twenty-two it is
said that all Scotland wept. She had
expected to serve God as a missionary in Europe and had become fluent in the
Russian language. But she was not able
to fulfill that dream. She had no
obvious gifts such as speaking or writing, and she had never traveled far from
home. Yet by the time she died she had
won hundreds of people to Jesus Christ.
Countless missionaries mourned her death because they knew that a great
channel of their spiritual strength was gone.
She had risen every morning at five in order to study God’s Word and to
pray. Her diary revealed that she
regularly prayed for over three hundred missionaries by name. Everywhere she went the atmosphere was
changed. If someone was telling a dirty
story, he would stop if he saw her coming.
If people were complaining, they would become ashamed of it in her presence. An acquaintance reported that while she was
at Glasgow University she left the fragrance of Christ wherever she went. In everything she said and did she was God’s
salt.”
A wonderful story of a girl who was
filled with the Holy Spirit and was herself salt, something that any believer
would like to be like.
Our next sub-section will be
entitled “Being Light” and that section is not nearly as long as the one we
just finished.
6/27/2020 10:41
AM
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