Salt of the Earth

Scripture: Matthew 5:13-16
Grace: To know Him and to be transformed by that knowledge

"If we are to help the people around us, it is not enough for us to have a vague and superficial knowledge of the way. We need to walk along it ourselves and to have firsthand knowledge of the obstacles that lie in our path and have to be surmounted. We need to have interior life, to enter daily into personal conversation with Jesus. We need to know his doctrine ever more deeply; to struggle with still more determination to overcome our own defects...
...Lukewarmness destroys the strength and endurance of the Faith, and is the soulmate, in both a personal and a collective way, of compromise and of a spirit of comfort-seeking..... In many spheres, the 'normal Christian' now generally means someone who is lukewarm and mediocre.

When love grows cold and faith falls asleep, the salt loses its savour and is no longer good for anything. It is just something for throwing away. What a pity if a Christian were to become as useless as this!
...We will be the true salt of the earth if we keep up our daily conversation with God and if we go with ever-greater faith and love to receive the Holy Eucharist. -- from In Conversation With God, vol. 3, pp 546-7