Salt

I was thinking about salt for some reason today. I was reading Matthew 5:17-20 in my quiet time and the passage right before that is about salt and light, and maybe that is why. Regardless, I was thinking about it. I don't think Jesus used salt for his illustration by chance. Sure it was common in that time, but I'm sure other spices were as well. So there must be something about salt that sets it apart. One thing is that it hurts when you get it in wounds. If you're anything like me, sometimes you don't even know you have a cut (or you've forgotten) until you happen to get salt in it. And then you know. And the only way to make it feel better is if you wash it out with water, right? So, I was thinking about how if salt is truth, God's truth, then sometimes it may cause irritation and pain to some wounds of people. Wounds they might not even realize they have. And this is not bad. Why? Because it causes them to come to the living water to be washed clean so that wound can heal, so the pain can be alleviated. Jesus is the living water. Anything that causes people to come to him, even pain, is good.