FAITH CAPSULE: Let your godly character mark your world.

Matthew 5:1-15

Your word is you.
Your character is your identity.
Before God, the only One who sees all, with no way to escape from the knowing of such, what kind of believer are you?
Does your character communicate your claim as a believer in God?
By virtue of your way of life, are you running away from the presence of God or running to the presence of God?
Are you cold, hot, or lukewarm in answering God?
What is your work like before God, the only Creator of all?
Revelation 3:15-16 records the word of God in response to the work of all: I know your works, that you are neither cold nor hot. I could wish you were cold or hot. So then, because you are lukewarm and neither cold nor hot, I will vomit you out of My mouth.
By the scriptural verse above, it is clear enough that there is no middle ground in every word of God.
As an acclaimed believer, you are either one who contributes to the earth as a preserver or one who does not contribute but takes the place of a non-preserver (destroyer). 
As an acclaimed believer, are you a preserver or destroyer by your way of living life?
Before the widespread use of refrigerators for food preservation, salt was the primary method.
Jesus identifies that just as salt preserves food, so should believers be the salt of the earth, to live as preservers.
Are you a preserving believer, a lukewarm believer, or a hot or cold believer?
A believer should be the one bringing impactful changes to the world, preserving the decaying world of sin and iniquity.
The world is wicked and gets more wicked.
One living by the word of God should be a believer not to be changed by the affairs of this world. 
Why not have the desire to be like salt, as a preserver of the wicked world?
Jesus said in Matthew 5:13, “You are the salt of the earth; but if the salt loses its flavor, how shall it be seasoned? It is then good for nothing but to be thrown out and trampled underfoot by men”. 
A kitchen with salt, producing tasteless and unacceptable food, is evidence that salt has lost its flavor. 
The salt that is not effective has lost its purpose. 
A believer living a life of waste will lose purpose and become thrown away like salt with no flavor.
According to Jesus, a thrown-away salt becomes an underfoot material. 
Be a kind of salt that preserves the world.
Quoting the word of God, claiming to be a believer, without a Godly character is empty before God.
Believers of the word are to be salt that seasons their world with godly and acceptable contributions. 
Live life as a preserving agent according to the word of God. 

Prayer for today: Ask God to deliver you from becoming a salt-less vessel to your world.