I am a Jesus pusher!!! “You are the salt of the earth, but if the salt loses its flavor, how shall it be seasoned? It is then good for nothing but to be thrown out and trampled underfoot by me,” (Matthew 5:13). We are back to the state in which we started, helplessness. We are “poor in spirit” (Matthew 5:3). We will admit and “mourn” this, opening us to the filling of His resource. He will come in the wonder of His presence and source us. With His embrace, God will form the Kingdom. Or we will attempt to source ourselves, those who are in a state of helplessness, poverty-stricken to the worst degree, trying to give themselves all they need. This group will be driven to recognize their helplessness. They have “nothing” (oudeis), not even one, not the least. “It is good” (ischyo) is lacking, meaning there is no resource sourcing them. This helplessness without adequate resource drives them to uselessness, leaving them to one fate. They are “thrown out and trampled underfoot by men.”
Helplessness is our intended state, the glory of humanity; it makes him unique among the creation. God created us individually to be helpless so He can fill us with Jesus! There is no shame in this reality; the shame is in the denial of such a state. We are the salt of the earth. In His embrace with us, God forms the Kingdom; in His embrace, we influence our world. The alternative is to have no resource, not even one. The only thing that can happen is separation, “thrown out and trampled underfoot by men.” Our value is in Jesus! I am a Jesus pusher!!!