Living Water

This blog is called salt and light and so far we have talked about light but not salt. Salt is key if you are a want to be a chef and historically it was one of the first ways we learned to preserve food.

Let's start with salt by talking about water. We already know that our planet is amazing. Earth is far enough away from the sun that we are not crispy critters and close enough that we are not keeping fudgesicles company in the freezer, Seventy percent of the earth is made of water and 79% of our body weight is water.  Ninety-seven percent of the earth's water is saline and found in the oceans

Up to 60% of the adult human body is actual water. According to H.H. Mitchell, Journal of Biological Chemistry 158, the brain and heart are composed of 73% water, and the lungs are about 83% water. The skin contains 64% water, muscles and kidneys are 79%, and even the bones are watery: 31%.

Life on Earth is possible because of water’s unique properties.

1.) Water is the only natural substance that is found in all three states -- liquid, solid (ice),  and 

gas (steam) -- at the temperatures normally found on Earth.

2.) Water has a high specific heat and can absorb a tremendous amount of heat acting like a heat

 buffer for the Earth

3.) Water is a polar molecule it has both a positive and a negative side this makes water the universal solvent

4.) Water is both cohesive and adhesive It can stick to itself and to other things this creates capillarity which means water can move within plants 

5.) Water expands as it gets colder. It is one of the only solids to do so this allows life to lever under the ice

 

Many of the characteristics of water are characteristics of God:

          1.) God is Triune: Father, Son and Holy Ghost and all were on the Earth. Just as water exists as                 solid liquid and gas.

          2.) Jesus saves us from the pits of hell. He literally acts like a thermostat to save us from the 

          heat of hell just like the oceans save us from the heat of the sun.

          3.)Jesus mixed with all types of people sinner and saint, with Pharisee and Samaritan just as water

          the universal solvent mixes with everything, except charged or polar molecules that are either                      positive or negative

          4.) God is cohesive and adhesive, Jesus sticks to us even while he connects to his Father 

          Like capillarity moves water thru plants the Holy Spirit moves through us into different parts of our

          lives

          Without the unique properties of living water we too would be spiritually dead.

 

So where did this water come from? Science 's best guess is comets. Where do comets come from? Deep space behind the Oort cloud, in other words scientists don't really know.  Why is water important?  Well according to new evidence we did not evolve out of a primordial soup. The atmosphere for that was never here. The best theories now say we came from the seas, from black or white smokers. A more detailed subject for another day, but basically we came out of the water.

Most of the water on our planet is saline about 35 parts per thousand our blood has a salinity of about 9 grams for every 1000 grams. Coincidence? Maybe, maybe not. SO we are not just water, we are SALTY water.

Salt is chemically neutral, a positive Na mixes with a negative Cl. What's the positive and negative used by the relative number of protons to electrons. See post one for a discussion of electrons.

Here are some verse about salt:

Matthew 5:13 

“You are the salt of the earth, but if salt has lost its taste, how shall its saltiness be restored? It is no longer good for anything except to be thrown out and trampled under people's feet.

Colossians 4:6 

Let your speech always be gracious, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how you ought to answer each person.

Mark 9:50 ESV 

Salt is good, but if the salt has lost its saltiness, how will you make it salty again? Have salt in yourselves, and be at peace with one another.”

Matthew 5:13-16 

“You are the salt of the earth, but if salt has lost its taste, how shall its saltiness be restored? It is no longer good for anything except to be thrown out and trampled under people's feet. “You are the light of the world. A city set on a hill cannot be hidden. Nor do people light a lamp and put it under a basket, but on a stand, and it gives light to all in the house. In the same way, let your light shine before others, so that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father who is in heaven.

Leviticus 2:13 

You shall season all your grain offerings with salt. You shall not let the salt of the covenant with your God be missing from your grain offering; with all your offerings you shall offer salt.

Luke 14:34-35 

“Salt is good, but if salt has lost its taste, how shall its saltiness be restored? It is of no use either for the soil or for the manure pile. It is thrown away. He who has ears to hear, let him hear.”

In humans, salt plays a crucial role in maintaining human health. It is the main source of sodium and chloride ions in the human diet. Sodium is essential for nerve and muscle function and is involved in the regulation of fluids in the body. ... Chloride ions serve as important electrolytes by regulating blood pH and pressure.

Without salt you and our planet would not be alive. Everything on the oceans would be frozen and chemical signals would not be able to cross our cell membranes.

Salt attracts water and we know from osmosis when there is a lot of salt, there wants to be a lot of water. So if we want to have more living water we need to have more spiritual salt. What is the spiritual salt - we are according to Matthew

Here are a couple of verses about water

John 4:14   
but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him shall never thirst; but the water that I will give him will become in him a well of water springing up to eternal life.”

John 7:38   
He who believes in Me, as the Scripture said, ‘From his innermost being will flow rivers of living water.’”

Christ » Gifts of » Living water
Endowments » Seven gifts of Christ to believers » Living water

Eze 47;  

• General references to 
• Issuing from God's house
• Makes life fruitful
• Universal call to partake of
• The supply inexhaustible
• Unaffected by time and season
• Satisfies the deepest needs
• Christ the source of
  

So living water is God, according to the Bible and living water is salty according to science. Without salt in the water, water would not be able to support life. Everything inside the water would be dead.

Salt gives the water in us spiritual taste and acts as a preservative. Salt water protects us even more than regular water from temperature extremes. It keeps us from being frozen in place easily and it makes us more reactive. The salt verses warn us against not losing our saltiness, not losing our spiritual life.

There are two ways that salt loses its savor. One is by contamination, the other is by separation. We need to avoid both of these with our faith.

Stay faithful, Stay liquid. Stay salty.