SLP342 - Salt, Light, and Other Ways to Disrupt the Environment

The Strategic Living Podcast with Brian Holmes

Have you ever considered that YOU have the capacity and potential to change the world or to make a substantive difference in people’s lives?

What does it mean to be a difference-maker?

What does it mean to affect your environment and culture?

That’s exactly what we’re talking about in today’s episode: Salt, Light, and Other Ways to Disrupt the Environment.
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Our focus carried over from last week is influence.

We must be engaged in activities and causes that foster positive change around us. True transformation will only come when people like us decide to be the change we desire to see.

In the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus uses some very powerful word pictures to describe our place in this world.

Matthew 5:13-16 The Passion Translation (TPT)

“Your lives are like salt among the people. But if you, like salt, become bland, how can your ‘saltiness’ be restored? Flavorless salt is good for nothing and will be thrown out and trampled on by others.
Your lives light up the world. Let others see your light from a distance, for how can you hide a city that stands on a hilltop? And who would light a lamp and then hide it in an obscure place? Instead, it’s placed where everyone in the house can benefit from its light. So don’t hide your light! Let it shine brightly before others so that the commendable things you do will shine as light upon them, and then they will give their praise to your Father in heaven.”

Salt is an ingredient, which when introduced to any dish, fundamentally changes the flavor of the food.

The environment cannot say to the salt, “I refuse to change”.

Unless the salt has lost its potency or unique value and quality…

In which case it will become good for nothing, and be walked all over by those who have asserted their agenda to bear.

How About The Light?

There is no darkness powerful enough to overcome light.

What’s the point of being light if you’re going to keep it hidden from the people who so desperately need it?

If you have a message or an answer that can light the path for someone, why would you not share it?

Light only has value if it is intentionally set up where people can see it

Salt only has value if it can be utilized to change an environment or situation.

You have the capacity to radically change your world.

If you think about it, both SALT and LIGHT are environment disruptors. That is what YOU are.

You know God has created you for greatness. You see the needs and hurts of people around you. You have something to offer!