Jesus calls Believers the Salt of the earth and the Light of the world in Matthew 5. When we ponder about this, we can realise a common effect that salt and light have: The ability to reveal taste and colour in the substances and spaces they permeate. Salt reveals taste in edible substances. Light also provides clarity in a situation or place. Salt is useful when it adds taste just as light is useful when it provides illumination for those who need it. So the focus of God’s administration of salt and light is not to bring attention to themselves, but to bring an awareness to the flavours obscured and unseen elements in this world. So Jesus calls us to preserve our saltiness and avoid putting a lit candle under a basket. He then tells us believers to let (permit, allow) our lights to so shine so men would see our good works and give glory to God. Our influence of light brings illumination to the God-ordained good works we walk in and the evil works of darkness. Good works ex...
Endurance is a powerful tool in God's transformative process. So much that the Bible teaches us to permit it to have its fullest work in order that we lack nothing, thoroughly furnished for every good work. However, we can truncate the work of Endurance. Esau did when he exchanged his birthright for food. Moses did when he struck the rock God asked to speak to in his anger. John the Baptist did when he began to question His insight on the Messiah when Christ did not seem to rescue him. Endurance may not always lead to our desired outcome. In fact, it may rather bring us to our perception of disappointment. But, the key is that in every instance of Endurance, we must have an eternal perspective, His perspective of victory. Hebrews 12 said "... who for the joy set before him, endured the cross and despised the shame". Hebrews 11 said "Abraham endured as seeing Him who is unseen". In the parable of the sower, Jesus said persecution [the rising hot sun] arises b...