When you cook, you don’t keep salt aside to protect it from the food. You add it in because that is when it becomes effective. The salt does not lose its flavour or identity; instead, it transforms everything around it.
Light
Hope is one of the most powerful gifts God has given us. It sustains faith, keeping our eyes fixed on God’s promises and reminding us that hope can hold on to what faith has believed.
“Examine yourselves as to whether you are in the faith. Test yourselves. Do you not…
“For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Walk as children of…