Salt on tortillas? Why yes!

Salt? Oh there is nothing greater than tortillas sprinkled with salt and dipped into guacamole at my favorite Mexican restaurant. It just causes my taste buds to dance.

I began to do a little search on ‘salt’ recently. It has several uses:

It is used as a seasoning, a preservative to stave off decay and prevent infection, and is also the medium to introduce medicine into a body.I have always been a bit startled by a particular passage concerning salt. Have youever read Ezekiel 16:4, “As for your nativity on the day you were born your navelcord was not cut nor were you washed in water to cleanse you; you were not rubbedwith salt nor wrapped in swaddling clothes.” Ouch! No one cut your cord! No onewashed you with water to clean you! No one rubbed you with salt or wrapped youwith clothes. Who would rub salt on a newborn baby’s precious skin??? So tender.So delicate.

This verse is what sparked my interest in salt! After much digging, I discovered salt was pulverized to form a primitive baby powder. A professor once commented on this verse: “If you have ever seen a baby with a terrible diaper rash, then you can appreciate what the Lord says here. He loves us enough to deal with our messes. ”Yep, our messes. Just know that today, whatever your circumstance, He is willing and able to step in and handle your mess. Not only will He take and handle it, but He will also do it gently. When I think of pulverizing salt and making a gentle powder, I smile at how comprehensively He handles His children. Go ahead today, friends, and hand it over. You are in gentle hands.