For everyone will be salted with fire.

 Salt:

            Salted with fire:  

 

Mark 9:49

49 “For everyone will be salted with fire.

 

            We’ve probably all heard messages on salt (adding flavor; being a preservative; etc.) and on fire, and they all say it better than I could. What I want to look at is the statement that we will be salted with fire. It is the fire that brings about the flavor and preservative characteristics of this salting. The fire burns away the dross from our old life and leaves the “flavor” of the new. Fire hurts, but this fire is beneficial. It leaves us much stronger than before. Many Christians resist the inward fire. It is necessary for us to experience this in our lives. We need to determine, though, if this is God’s cleansing fire or the devil’s tempting one. He sends his fire to destroy us. We must resist that one.

 

If you could hear God speak, I believe this is what He would say:

            "There is a fire coming upon the world. It is a fire that will burn up the chaff of mankind. It is a fire that will destroy the works of the devil. It is a fire that will purify My people. You are My special one, and I desire that you come to know Me in My cleansing fire. You will either be cleansed by My fire or destroyed by it. It is a cleansing and redeeming fire. It is a fire of purity and grace. All who go through the fire and are not scorched by it shall come into My blessings on the earth as well as in Heaven.”

 

            64. I shall be salted with fire and shall come through unscathed like the three Hebrew children.