When Jesus says the salt that has lost it’s saltiness will be “trampled under foot,” he is using a metaphor that in his day meant that outsiders would oppress them. In other words, when God’s people no longer act like God’s people, God allows human powers to “trample them under foot” to humble them and bring them back in line with His will.
In our time, we are seeing the church, the Bible, and the moral truths of our Judeo-Christian heritage “trampled under foot.” Rather than blame those outside the church, Jesus words call us to examine ourselves. How have we, as Christians, lost our “saltiness”? How have we hidden God’s light by our own sin, apathy, selfishness and complacency?
America has experienced at least two “Great Awakenings.” These times of revival were marked by many converts to the faith, but even more, they were marked by a renewed holiness among those in the church. As we pray for another Great Awakening in our day, let us confess our own sins and recommit to being “all in” for Jesus. As the old song says, “Lord, let there be a revival, and let it begin with me
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