God's purpose is one -  All to know Him and to make Him known.  God's pathway to know Him is to follow the Word.  We all must have our purpose aligned with His purpose. May God align our REMARKABLE PURPOSE® with His purpose. All of us who are born and are able to sit, stand and walk in the path of God, run the race.  God leads those who hear His voice and follow Him. God is glorified when we deny ourselves (give up self-controlled life), and take up our cross (suffer abuse for standing for Christ), and follow Him (day-to-day walk with Jesus, despite great earthly loss). GOD ALMIGHTY turns runners into winners.

During a dining experience, food is the focus of the meal, rather than the salt. While salt enhances the food's flavor, it goes quite unnoticed. Similarly, the true disciple of Christ usually receives little recognition in a world whose values lie in the opposite direction.

Salt, when rightly applied to food can transform it from unappealing blandness into a delectable gourmet experience. Thus, Christians, by virtue of their presence, can and should permanently change their world.

A product of the sun and sea, salt's glistening whiteness suggests the quality of purity. Thus believers, if they are to be the "salt of the earth," must exemplify a standard of absolute purity in thought, conduct, and speech.

In the days before refrigeration, salt was used as a preservative on meat to delay decay. So today, the process of putrefaction in society can at least be slowed by the presence of Christ's followers.

When diluted, Christians, like salt, are of little consequence, except "… to be thrown out and trampled by men."

Then we will no longer be immature like children. Ephesians 4:14 (NLT)