Matthew 5:13–“You are the salt of the earth, but if salt has lost its taste, how shall its saltiness be restored? It is no longer good for anything except to be thrown out and trampled under people’s feet.

More and more the world has embraced the significance of having a purpose in life. Because they know the desperation of young people resorting to suicide, or a life of recklessness.  Even they know there is a need for people to know why they are here in the first place.

Yet it has to go beyond the notion that the world sends out to the masses, “that you are special”.  If that sentiment is coming from random people in society, it usually doesn’t do enough for a person to look inwardly and believe that.  It must come from someone who knows why we are here, and points us in the direction of our gifts and influence in this world…

Though parents are to help navigate children to God’s purpose, many times as parents we struggle knowing our own significance and influence in the earth, so it becomes “the blind leading the blind”.  This is why Jesus first tells the disciples who they are in the world (salt=identity), and the expectation to be effective or influential as salt (purpose)…

When you have an identity and an expectation to be effective as an individual, it answers so many questions regarding why you exist!  It also tears down the sad inferiority of trying to be somebody else or look like someone else, while rejecting the unique way God made you and I to impact the earth!

Until we embrace our purpose as salt to be effective for the Kingdom, in whatever way God has gifted you, we will live like we are “to be thrown out and trampled”.  Those words from Jesus are the sentiment of many Christians, who struggle with their purpose and lack of impact in the earth…

In His Love, Ld