Matthew 5:13, “You are the salt of the earth, but if salt has become tasteless, how will it be made salty again? It is good for nothing anymore, except to be thrown out and be trampled under the foot of man.” I’ve always wondered what this verse meant. I have never heard that salt can lose its flavor so I looked up ways salt can lose its saltiness. Salt adds flavor to food; it is used to draw out water; to cure food for longevity, even to create traction on icy roads. I lived just North of the Great Salt Lake in Utah. There were several salt plants that pulled the salt out of the lake. Morton salt was one of these plants. I used to drive by this plant on I-80 and see the mounds of salt off the highway. They weren’t covered. They were just piled there like a gravel pit. I thought this was interesting and wondered if the rain ruined them. In my search for how salt loses its flavor, I found that for salt to lose its saltiness, it would have to change its physical composition. It would have to be diluted in water. Salt is non-reactive in crystalline form, but when something is introduced to alter the crystals, it changes its potency. I reread Matthew 5:13 and realized salt becomes tasteless when it becomes watered down by the world. If we allow something to be introduced that alters the components of our Christian Walk, we lose our potency. We are the salt of the earth. Don’t let yourself become watered down with complacency. 2 Timothy 4:2-4 says, “Preach the word; be ready in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with great patience and instruction. For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but wanting to have their ears tickled, they will accumulate for themselves teachers in accordance with their own desires; and will turn away their ears from the truth and will turn aside to myths.”