Add Flavour to People’s Life: Devotion for Tuesday February 11, 2020

MY DAILY COVENANT WITH GOD DEVOTIONAL

Devotion for Tuesday February 11, 2020

Topic: Add Flavour to People’s Life           

Text: Matthew 5:13

Seasoning is a flavour added to make food tasty. Some seasonings common to us are salt, pepper, spices, herbs, maggi, knorr, onga and others. A woman who forgot seasoning agent while shopping will cook a food that people can’t eat. People will out rightly reject the food despite the enormous amount of money and time spent in preparing the food. This shows the importance of seasoning to foods and people who prepare foods. Jesus used the importance of salt in preparing good and tasty foods to teach us the importance of Christians in any society. Salt has multi functions. It adds flavour to food and is used as preservatives. By salt of the earth, Jesus posited that we are means of earth’s preservation; by our holy doctrine, prayers, and exemplary life style.

There are two reasons Jesus compared us to salt. It is the nature of salt to preserve things from corruption and putrefaction, and to render them savoury and pleasant. Thus we should endeavour through our purity of our doctrine to sweeten and purify sinners that they may become savoury to God and Man; and may be kept from being flyblown (contaminated) with errors and false doctrine. Again according to William Burkett, “Salt has a piercing power in it, which subdues the whole lump, and turns it into its own nature: such a piercing power is there in the ministry of the word, that it subdues the whole man to the obedience of itself.” Are you a seasoning agent like salt in your office, workplace, church, neighbourhood and other places you go to? How much do people miss your absence in meetings, offices, business arena and your neighbourhood?

Food for Thought: Are you salt in your family and the society?

Memory verse: Mark 9:50

Prayer: Lord, make me a seasoning agent in my family and the society.

A Seasoning Agent: Devotion for Thursday February 11, 2016

A SEASONING AGENT       Thursday February 11, 2016

Text: Matthew 5:13           Memory verse: v 13

Seasoning is a flavour added to make food tasty. Some seasonings common to us are salt, pepper, spices, herbs, maggi, knorr, onga, etc. A woman who goes to market and bought everything and forgot seasoning agent will cook a food that people can’t eat. The food will be rejected out-rightly despite the enormous amount of money and time spent in preparing it. This shows the importance of seasoning in foods and people who prepare it. Jesus used the importance of salt in preparing good and tasty foods to teach us the importance of Christians in any society. Salt has multi functions. It adds flavour to food and it is used as preservatives. By salt of the earth, Jesus posited that we are means of earth’s preservation; by our holy doctrine, prayers, and exemplary life style.

Jesus compared us to salt for two reasons. It is the nature of salt to preserve things from corruption and putrefaction (decaying with disgusting smell), and to render them savoury and pleasant. It is our duty to endeavour by the purity of our doctrine, to sweeten and purify sinners that they may become savoury to God and Man; and may be kept from being flyblown (contaminated) with errors and false doctrine. Again according to William Burkett, “Salt has a piercing power in it, which subdues the whole lump, and turns it into its own nature: such a piercing power is there in the ministry of the word, that it subdues the whole man to the obedience of itself.” Are you a seasoning agent like salt in your office, workplace, church, neighbourhood, etc? How much do people miss you when you are absent from meetings, your offices, business, etc?

Food for Thought: Are you salt in your family and the society?

Prayer: Lord, make me a seasoning agent in my family and the society.