"You
are the salt of the earth, not the sugar candy."
~
Charles Spurgeon
"You
are the salt of the earth.'
~
Jesus in Matthew 5:13
Salt
preserves from corruption. The disciples of Christ preserve the world
from general corruption. Whatever becomes utterly corrupted is doomed
to be destroyed. Salt is worthless if it has lost its qualities. It
preserves no longer. It is fit only to be cast out and trodden under
foot. So, too, if those who are the salt of the earth cease to
communicate saving power, they are fit only to be cast out, and
Christ will cast such out of His mouth. See Re 3:16.
While
there is an emphasis in the utilization of salt in God's prescription
of worship and service, we find that today's worship is more often
like colorful sugar candy treats. While candy is pleasing to the eye
and to the tongue, it is not nutritional. Sugar often causes us to
crave more of the same. It can also take away our appetite for
nutritional food. What kind of spiritual food is being offered at
your church?
Here
are some interesting scriptures about the importance of salt &
the prohibition against leaven and honey. There are some amazing
correlations to today's 'worship'. I'd like to hear your thoughts.
'No
grain offering, which you bring to the LORD, shall be made with
leaven,
for
you shall not offer up in smoke any leaven or any honey as an
offering by fire to the LORD...
Every
grain offering of yours, moreover, you shall season with salt,
so
that the salt of the covenant of your God shall not be lacking from
your grain offering;
with
all your offerings you shall offer salt.'
Leviticus
2:11,13
Leaven
and honey are forbidden to be put in any of their meat-offerings: No
leaven, nor any honey, in any offering made by fire.
1.
..The New Testament comparing pride and hypocrisy to leaven because
they swell like leaven, comparing also malice and wickedness to
leaven because they sour like leaven, we are to understand and
improve this as a caution to take heed of those sins which will
certainly spoil the acceptableness of our spiritual sacrifices. Pure
hands must be lifted up without wrath, and all our gospel feasts kept
with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.
2.
Honey was forbidden, though Canaan flowed with it, because to eat
much honey is not good (Prov. 25:16, 27); it turns to choler and
bitterness in the stomach, though luscious to the taste. Some think
the chief reason why those two things, leaven and honey, were
forbidden, was because the Gentiles used them very much in their
sacrifices, and God's people must not learn or use the way of the
heathen, but His services must be the reverse of their idolatrous
services; see Deu. 12:30, 31. Some make this application of this
double prohibition: leaven signifies grief and sadness of spirit (Ps.
73:21), My heart was leavened; honey signifies sensual pleasure and
mirth. In our service of God both these must be avoided, and a mean
observed between those extremes; for the sorrow of the world worketh
death, and a love to the delights of sense is a great enemy to holy
love.
II.
Salt is REQUIRED in all their offerings, vs 13. ... there was a
chamber in the court of the temple called the chamber of salt, in
which they laid it up. Can that which is unsavoury be eaten without
salt? God would hereby intimate to them that their sacrifices in
themselves were unsavoury. The saints, who are living sacrifices to
God, must have salt in themselves, for every sacrifice must be salted
with salt (Mk. 9:49, 50), and our speech must be always with grace
(Col. 4:6), so must all our religious performances be seasoned with
that salt. Christianity is the salt of the earth.
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How
Sugar is Affecting Your Spirituality
Even
the least health-savvy of us know that sugar is not a healthy choice,
not just for people looking to improve their bikini bodies, but for
anyone interested in living a long and disease-free life.
We
hear all the time that eating too much sugar is detrimental to your
health no matter how you slice it. In the short term, it leads to
weight gain, mood swings, and energy crashes. In the long term, those
negative repercussions can parlay themselves into accelerated aging,
chronic fatigue, and obesity.
The
physical ramifications of eating excess sugar are widely known and
discussed; we know that it spikes your insulin levels, causes
inflammation in the body’s tissues, exhausts the adrenal glands,
and can lead to life-threatening illnesses like diabetes.
There
is, however, another danger the excess consumption of sugar poses to
our wellbeing; it is far less talked about, but just as worthy of our
attention.
Sugar
not only inhibits the healthy functioning of the pituitary gland, it
shuts it down. The pituitary gland, the small pinecone shaped
structure nestled between the brain’s two hemispheres, is known as
the master gland and the seat of spirituality in the body because of
its production of DMT, the biological elixir that allows for
spiritual awakening.
I
became intensely interested in the pineal gland recently, after a
deeply spiritual plant medicine experience. My awakening with the
plant medicine inspired me to continue opening and working on my
pineal gland so that I could live in a more connected state of being,
for myself, my partner, and my work.
This
gland is mysterious and powerful, and has been referred to as our
“spiritual antenna,” the “seat of the soul,” and, more
commonly, the “third eye,” because its been said to provide us
visibility into higher levels of consciousness. This belief in the
pineal gland’s role in mystical vision has existed among cultures
across the world since ancient times, and can be explained in
scientific terms by the gland’s production of the hormone
melatonin, a derivative of serotonin that influences our patterns of
sleeping and waking.
When
we are children, our pineal glands are open and as we age, they begin
to calcify or shut down as a result of exposure to toxins and
excessive quantities of certain hormones. People in countries where
it’s common to eat a higher percentage of processed and refined
food have much more heavily calcified pineal glands than others.
Perhaps this explains the spirituality deficit in America! We eat too
much sugar, and it’s not just making us fat, it’s killing our
intuition, better judgment, connection to the universe!
Refined
sugar causes the toxicity and hormone imbalance that shut down the
pineal gland. Along with alcohol, meat, fish, and fluoride, it
creates excess acidity in the body, forcing your system to draw
nutrients out of its tissues in an attempt to balance its pH. Overly
acidic body pH accelerated the build-up of calcium phosphate crystals
around the pineal gland that settle like a hard shell, literally
blinding the third eye. Sugar also increases epinephrine output,
which causes dysfunction in the pineal gland by interfering with its
natural production of melatonin.
I
believe the damage sugar does to the pineal gland is the most
important reason of all to eliminate it. Eating sugar not only puts
your physical health on the line, but your spiritual sight—you
ability to explore and deepen your purpose in the universe. Sugar
undermines our yoga and meditation practices by limiting the extent
of our access to the third eye, placing roadblocks in our daily and
spiritual lives.
Proper
nutrition is the most impactful way to detoxify and decalcify the
pineal gland, and the cornerstone of proper nutrition is sticking to
a very reduced sugar intake, and ideally eliminating it all together.
Giving
up sugar isn’t easy, but hopefully learning about its highly
damaging affects on the pituitary gland will compel and empower you
to give it up—that is what this knowledge did for me.
For
those of us seeking to raise our cosmic vibration, as are all of us
who dedicate ourselves to the YogaLean way of life, having an
impeccably functioning pituitary gland is essential.
Eliminating
as much sugar as possible from your diet is one of the most important
things you can do for the clarity and health of your “third eye,”
to find a deeper connection to yourself, and not to mention, to make
it past 40 without a mean case of diabetes. Cut sugar from your diet,
and I can personally assure that your heightened sense of
spirituality and wellbeing will come closely in tow.
Choose
Salt, not Sugar!
Salt
is better for you than Sugar!
