Salt makes people thirsty

Everyone is searching for someone, and while man shall not live on bread alone, he certainly can't go for long without water.

I feel that we are meant to make the world thirsty. And when they get thirsty, they need to drink. Many will search for water from their own cisterns, from wells they dig, from holes in the ground, or from clouded streams and rivers. But regardless of where they drink from, we need to keep making them thirsty. Why? So that some day, they might come to realize why we ourselves are not like them, why we ourselves are not thirsty.

That reason is simple. We have Jesus. He is the stream of living water, the source of restoration and the cure for thirstiness.

The way we live our lives has to be in the world, but not of the world. It has to be different. The goals is to make them thirsty, to the point where Jesus is the only solution.

I know i've been in their place before. I've been thirsty yet tried to find my own water source, only to be salted by strong faith driven Christians within our church to come to the conclusion and conviction that Jesus is indeed the way the truth and the life as He claimed.

Isn't it time the rest of the world saw things the same way?

However, it is important to recognize that once the world gets thirsty for Jesus, we do not attach ourselves to the gospel. That would be akin to getting them to drink saltwater, which in fact dehydrates even further.

As ambassadors of Christ, we simply show people our Lord, without the complexities of the church, worship styles, theological disputes and so on. Why should a pre-believer need align himself with our church styles and beliefs? Aside from the concrete ones, like the Trinity, Jesus, etc (see Nicrene Creed)

What the world needs is Jesus, not us. Be salt, make them thirsty, then back off, and watch in awe as they find content in the stream of living water.

*These are my reflections as i explore the topic of salt.