Originally posted on Facebook on Wednesday, September 3, 2025.

A lot of days I wonder whether anything I do matters.

The challenge of being salt and light is that their benefit is largely imperceptible to themselves.

Their purpose is not for themselves but for others: “You are the salt of the earth… [without it], how shall it be seasoned?” and “You are the light of the world… it gives light to all who are in the house.”

Salt doesn’t taste itself. Light doesn’t see itself. They do not act upon themselves, so they don’t experience their effect. That means I can’t measure the effectiveness of what I do by how it feels to me.

I don’t season or shine for myself. So, for who then?

For the benefit of others, but ultimately for the Father—the one who made me salt and light.

I have to trust that His making of me is effectively working to achieve the good that He purposed. (Ephesians 2:10, 4:16)

“Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works and glorify your Father in heaven.” — Matthew 5:16

It is for Him.

My constant focus, then, must be to simply love Him (we love God through obedience, which is not forced but flows from our love for Him [John 14:15, 1 John 5:3])—accepting that there is a great deal I do not perceive nor understand, and trusting that my labor in the Lord is never in vain (1 Corinthians 15:58).

"And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are the called according to His purpose." — Romans 8:28

So the challenge is to live by faith and not by sight—not measuring our effectiveness by what we perceive, but by trusting that God is good, He wastes nothing and is using you in ways for good that others might experience, even if you don't.

Season and Shine.

God is using it beyond what we can see.

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