While ants might not be the best example to represent evil, they are sufficient, since they try to eat my food. Evil little things.
In applying this to our real lives, i feel that perhaps the key to being good salt to the world is that we realize our role in keeping the world safe. Like in my case, the ants were coming to take away something i valued a lot, which was my food, and the salt helped keep them away. In the same way the world is filled with evil, and the evil one, aka Satan, is always trying to steal away what we treasure most. He takes lives, souls, brings disaster etc (although some might argue that these are wraths of God rather than moves of Satan, but that's an argument for another day).
Where do we fit in? As salt, our role is to ensure that Satan is not allowed to sneak in and steal what the world values.
What exactly do we protect?
Values. Morals. Justice. Human rights.
These were the first things that came to mind. I'm sure each of us has our own opinion of what is valued by the world, by us, and it's okay i guess.
Maybe we aren't supposed to just spread the gospel, maybe we are supposed to do so much more.
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