Drop Some Sticks, Be Salt (Part 3)!

INSPIRE Devotionals With Emmanuel Afiawari Thursday, July 3, 2025 Topic:* DROP SOME STICKS (Part 3)! Memory Verse: "Therefore he said, 'Pick it up for yourself.' So he reached out his hand and took it" -  Kings 6:7 NKJV Bible Text: 2 Kings 6:5‭-‬6 NKJV 5. But as one was cutting down a tree, the iron ax head fell into the water; and he cried out and said, “Alas, master! For it was borrowed.” 6. So the man of God said, “Where did it fall?” And he showed him the place. So he cut off a stick, and threw it in there; and he made the iron float. INSPIRATION: The book of 2 Kings 2:19-22 presents another bad event turned good by the leading of God's Spirit upon Elisha. The ground was barren, and the only source of water in town was bad too. Whilst the people complained to Elisha, he didn't join in their despair. Believers must know how to act differently at all times and not join the reactionary bandwagon. He took salt and dropped it at the source of the river, and spoke to the situation. Not only did the salt turn the taste of the water, it also healed the ground. Was it not just salt, you ask? Jesus points us to our real identity when He said, “You are the salt of the earth..." (Matt. 5:13). By implication, you're to add taste, heal bad situations and preserve the future. You're empowered to speak peace and add grace to unfavourable conditions and see to its change. When Elisha dropped salt, things changed. Do you still retain your properties as 'Salt'? Can we add you to flavour a bad situation until it becomes sweet again? Elisha went to the source of the water, puts salt into it and said, “Thus says the Lord: ‘I have healed this water; from it there shall be no more death or barrenness'" (2 Kgs 2:21). What can you learn from this? How would you address ugly situations that confront you going forward? TODAY'S TAKE HOME: Any problem you do not address from its source like Elisha did never gets resolved permanently. Don't play cosmetics with your destiny. Enhance your features as salt and let it reflect in all your undertakings henceforth. PRAYER: O Lord, please order my steps to walk in the consciousness of my true identity as salt until I become a symbol of healing and preserving grace to my world, in Jesus name.