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Salt That Is No GoodThe days are getting colder and this has brought back to my memory hog killing days with my Pawpaw, dad, and brother. Making sausage was my favorite part, but we also had to salt the hams, streaked meat (that’s salt cured bacon for you city folks😉), and fatback. Sometimes we would have salt left over from the previous year, but Pawpaw would say, “Boys don’t use that old salt until I check and see if it is any good. If it is bad that meat will go rank (spoil).”Jesus said in Matthew 5:13“Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be salted? it is thenceforth good for nothing, but to be cast out, and to be trodden under foot of men.”All Christians are “the salt of the earth”. But if a Christian loses its “savour” or “saltness” how could it or why would it be used to do any good? It is as Jesus said, “thenceforth good for nothing”. You might as well cast it out “to be trodden under foot of men”.Seems to me back in those days sausage and streaked meat and country ham were different and tasted so much better than today. Come to think of it, the Christians in those days were different as well, and the world seemed to be a much safer place to live. Perhaps both have something to do with salt? With salt getting such a bad rap these days it might do us some good to remember what Jesus said in Mark 9:50;“Salt is good: but if the salt have lost his saltness, wherewith will ye season it? Have salt in yourselves, and have peace one with another.”Hey Christian, is your salt any good?