“If anyone thirsts, let him come to me and drink. Whoever believes in me, as the Scripture has said, ‘Out of his heart will flow rivers of living water.’”

Salt doesn’t just preserve—it creates thirst. Ask any rancher who feeds salt blocks to cattle: the more they lick, the more they long for water. That’s the picture Jesus gives when He calls us “the salt of the earth.”

Your life is meant to awaken thirst in others. Not thirst for more of you—but thirst for more of Him. When people watch how you endure suffering, how you forgive when wronged, how you stand steady in storms—they should sense a different Source. Something in you should make them wonder, “Where does that peace come from? Who gives that kind of strength?”

That thirst points them to Christ, the Living Water. John 7 says that whoever believes in Jesus will not only drink deeply themselves, but overflow so others can drink too. That’s what it means to be salt—you don’t quench thirst; you stir it.

If…then. If the world is never thirsty for the Christ in me, then maybe my life has lost its saltiness. But if my life is marked by love, integrity, and joy in Christ, then those around me will start craving what only He can satisfy.

Your role isn’t to be the water—it’s to point to it. You’re the salt that makes others long for the only well that never runs dry.

Share one story today of how Jesus has satisfied you.
Your testimony may be the taste of salt that makes someone else thirsty for Living Water.

Jesus, make my life salty enough to stir thirst for You. Let my joy, my patience, and my endurance point others to the Living Water. Keep me from blending in so much that no one notices the difference. Let my saltiness draw people not to me, but to You. In Your name, Amen.