Each of us provides a special flavour to society around us. What's your flavour please? We make life more palatable for many others, whether they know it or know. Whether we know it or not as well. Jesus reveals an amazing principle in this verse:

"You are the salt of the earth. But if the salt loses its saltiness, how can it be made salty again? It is no longer good for anything, except to be thrown out and trampled by men."

Dare I ask again; what's your flavour please? Are you salty? Do you create in people an interest for more of Jesus?

Secular media doesn't often notice this, and Christians often forget as well; a study of history shows that whenever a country or epoch has had true believers living unashamedly for Christ, the quality of life for all people of that nation or era has been upgraded. For instance, woman are only treated as human and have a political voice where Christianity has had a foothold.

This is why in our day, as worship of God is cast aside and Christians grow secularized and worldly. The presence of evil returns to cause devastation, harm and death to many. Wars, and threats of war, increase.

This is exactly what Jesus warned about in Matthew 5:13. When grains of salt lose their saltiness, they are good for nothing but to be thrown out and trampled. It's the same with godly Christians; we start thinking like worldly people, then behaving like them, and soon we lose our influence for good. No positive - or salty flavour.

The taste or tastelessness of salt is obvious to anyone who has a lick. It really isn't hard to tell whether we have lost our flavour as pure and godly people in our society. However, if we detect this, let's not despair, nor throw ourselves out of God's grace too quickly.

Instead, let's go to Him in prayer, begging to be re-flavoured. More of Jesus in our lives, and folks won't have to ask, "What's your flavour please?"