1 Kings 18:20-39 / Matthew 5:17-19
When we go to a restaurant, there will be a menu of what food is available.
Salt is not on the menu, but it is taken for granted.
But when it is missing from the food, we will immediately notice it.
And we won’t be silent about it. We will call for the waiter or even the chef and ask for an explanation.
In the first reading, the prophet Elijah asked the people:
“How long do you mean to hobble first on one leg then on the other? If the Lord is God, follow him; if Baal, follow him.’
But the people never said a word.
They were like eating tasteless food but not saying anything about it.
The people forgot about the taste of the goodness of the Lord.
Jesus came not to abolish the Law or the Prophets, but to complete them.
He came to give us the taste of the goodness of the Lord.
When we know how good the Lord is to us, we won’t want the tasteless life.
With the goodness of the Lord in us, we will be the salt of the earth that will give others the taste of the goodness of the Lord.