Alas, Salt Fails

Christian believers and practitioners are both designed and designated to be like salt in a world in need of preservation from the rotten influences of wickedness and evil. And it is true, practicing Christ-followers who speak out and act contrary to declining socio-moral trends do have varying degrees of influence in retarding the decay of a society's moral fabric.

In the face of increasing moral decay in America and the world, we hear an increasing number of sermons that seem to blame non-practicing Christian believers, in part, for this decay. No doubt, this is an important factor. However, salt's influence is only designed for a (limited) time. No amount of salt, irrespective of its quality, can preserve a slab or meat....forever!  Eventually, decay will win the day, so to speak, and that slab of meat will/will stink and return to the base elements of ... dirt, facilitated by worms.  

With a rapidly growing world population and proportionately fewer practicing Christ-followers, the 'writing is on the wall', or rather 'in the Book'. Rather than pointing a finger of blame, or cursing the increasing darkness all around us, of course, we should enhance and share our saltiness and ignite a light where ever we can, but more importantly, we need to recognize the world is simply following the script and pre-determinations of our Creator.

Here is an interesting perspective on what could be called the 'Iterative Right-ness/Rottenness Syndrome': 

·      God established His Heaven, and eventually rebellious rottenness was found among a significant cohort of angels. He excommunicated the rottenness, saved a remnant of angels, and restored full right-ness in Heaven. 

·      God established earth in right-ness, and eventually, rebellious rottenness was found therein. He excommunicated mankind and his sinful rottenness from His Garden of Eden, and promised to restore right-ness on the earth, saving a remnant in the process. This restoration promise and process is being fulfilled iteratively via the right-ness/rottenness cycle. 

·      As you quickly scan human history, consider the many, many times and ways in which right-ness was re-established, only to succumb to eventual rottenness, triggering some form of excommunication of the rottenness and salvation of a remnant, only to have the cycle repeat iteratively.

This cycle is reflected, not only in human history, but also in nearly every aspect of physical life and existence across the universe. Though it is an iterative, reflective cycle, it does have a culmination, as briefly described in the last two chapters of The Book of Revelation. Read ‘em and re-Joy-ce!  Righteousness wins, and will be permanently established, un-shakably.

So of course, endeavor to enhance your saltiness, ignite a light wherever you can, and don’t overly criticize the available amount and distribution of ‘right-ness salt’ in our world.  It’s doing its assigned job – for a (limited) time.    

Does this help to put in a clearer light "What's (really) Going On?" in our world?