Ben Mozingo turns to Matthew 5:11-16, part of a longer discourse delivered by Jesus Christ to His disciples. In this passage, Jesus exhorts His disciples to be salt and light. Like salt, we are to flavor and preserve this world. Flavoring, or “savor,” indicates our lives are to be noticeably different from the lives of those who do not follow Christ, creating spectacle and altering the normal course of worldliness around us. Preservation comes because God is pleased by the faithfulness of His servants, and blesses the just and the unjust alike for the sake of the faithful.
Our lives and examples are to shine as lights in a dark world. Our choices in life should be informed by God’s will as recorded in scripture, and should shine in contrast to the darkness of worldly wisdom common to man apart from God.
In John 15, Christ is likened to a vine, and we as His followers are described as fruit-bearing branches. God has called us to live in such a way that God’s Spirit within us will be evident through the lives we live by faith.
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