Salt and Watch

Today I read Leviticus 1:9-4:9 and Mark 13:7-37. My favorite verses are:

Leviticus 2:13 And every oblation of thy meat offering shalt thou season with salt; neither shalt thou suffer the salt of the covenant of thy God to be lacking from thy meat offering: with all thine offerings thou shalt offer salt.

Mark 13:37 And what I say unto you I say unto all, Watch.

In the Old Testament God commanded that every sacrifice offered to him was to be seasoned with salt. In the New Testament Jesus told His followers that they were the salt of the earth. We no longer offer animals and other food in sacrifice to God; we give ourselves to Him. We are not the seasoning on the sacrifice; we are both the seasoning and the sacrifice. God wants us to give Him our all. And as we make ourselves completely available for His service, we are to heed the command of Mark 13:37—Watch! We must be alert to what is going on around us because Satan is at war against us. He wants to defeat us so that we are ineffective in our service to God. We must be willing to serve God and watching to avoid Satan.