Most caves across the planet earth are formed in limestone. It’s easily eroded by water, forming calcium carbonate, which is carried away by streams or other running water. In caves, the calcium carbonate often forms stalactites or stalagmites, which are no more than towers of limestone left by the dripping action of water moving through the limestone above.
Cavers love to explore the remains of the stone and the interesting shapes it leaves behind. Shine colored lights over them, and the shadows they create are beautiful.
There is, however, one interesting fact about limestone. It doesn’t erode in salt water. Salt water is already at its saturation point for the minerals found in limestone, and it can’t wear it away.
Psalm 18:2 teaches us that Jesus is our rock, and Matthew 5:13 says the church is the salt of the earth. We can change that slightly and say that Jesus is our limestone, and the church is the salt water of the earth. As salt water, we must be so saturated with him that our lives ebb and flow around Jesus, and he remains our steady rock, there for us in every situation, and never changing.
Fresh water, however, erodes limestone quite well. Take the salt out of the water, and the stone is pulled away a bit at a time, until it is so weakened it crumbles into nothing at all.
When we are no longer saturated with Jesus, we begin to erode the truth from his message, and his mission becomes pockmarked with holes. If we wear away the substance of Christ’s sacrifice to humanity too much, the world might still find it interesting to explore the fragments of remaining truth in the salvation offered by the church, but Jesus will have become no more than a shadow of what he once was. The world will highlight the parts they think are beautiful, and ignore the truth we’ve allowed to wear away.
When we’re saturated with Jesus, the truth we share with others will remain the same until the end of time.
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