DEVOTION - WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 29, 2012

DEVOTION –  WEDNESDAY,  FEBRUARY 29, 2012

SALT IN THE WATER”

BY  REV. G. MEL DUNN

 

“The Spring healed by Elisha in the middle of Jericho”

II KINGS

2Ki 2:19  And the men of the city said to Elisha, Behold, please, the location of this city is pleasant, as my lord sees. But the waters are bad, and the ground is barren.

2Ki 2:20  And he said, Bring me a new jar and put salt in it. And they brought to him.

2Ki 2:21  And he went forth to the spring of the waters and threw the salt in there, and said, So says Jehovah, I have healed these waters. There shall not be any more death or barrenness from there.

2Ki 2:22  And the waters were healed to this day, according to the saying of Elisha which he spoke.

Elisha had returned from Jordan, after receiving the power and cloak of Elijah and found the city of Jericho in trouble.   The water had turned brackish and the ground would not produce crops to sustain the people.   The people of Jericho turned to the prophet who took a jar of salt and tossed it into the water and the water was healed.

As I stood by the spring,  I wondered at how salt, which should have made the water unusable,  made it pure.   How great is the  wonder working power of God.

Jesus  told us,  in   Matthew  5:13  “Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt has lost its savor, wherewith shall it be salted? it is thenceforth good for nothing, but to be cast out, and to be trodden under foot of.”

Oh that in this Lenten season,  might we be a healing salt in the earth.

“Oh Lord,  never let us not lose our savor,  our joy in serving Jesus, and allow us to be a healing presence in this brackish and troubled world.    Amen”