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盐和酵母有些相似，它们都是细小颗粒，用于加添食物味道；我们吃这些食物时，差不多已不见它们的踪影了，然而，它们对食物味道的贡献，却是非常明显的。烘面包时，酵母能够使面团发起来，而盐则可用来调味和防腐。

耶稣在这里教导我们，在幕后默默地为神的国作工，能在人的生命中产生非常大的作用。

我认识一位在一间城市大医院工作的护士，她是个颇为害羞和沉默寡言的人，但她热爱她的工作，她忠心和严谨地服侍病人。她告诉我，某天晚上十一时她当值完毕时，有一位同事说：“今天晚上我发现，每当我与你同时值班时，工作往往进行得很顺利。我觉得很奇怪，因为我通常都不会留意到你在场的。”不过，耶稣却不会感到出奇；我们若活出做盐和酵母的呼召，我们留下的祝福将会是显而易见的。

一位富裕的朋友托我悄悄地把一笔款项转交给教会一个陷入困境的家庭。他们的担子因此大大减轻了，于是便询问是谁援助他们，好叫他们能够向他致谢。我建议他们，只需要为他们得到的爱心和关怀感谢神就好。

治死期待别人留意我们的欲望，能够留下有影响力和令人难忘的祝福。

Salt and yeast have a number of things in common. Both come in tiny granules and are used for enhancing food. By the time the food is eaten, they have pretty much become invisible, but the contributions they make are very noticeable. Yeast works well to make dough rise when you are baking bread, and salt is both a seasoning and a preservative.

Here Jesus is teaching us about quiet, behind-the-scenes work in the kingdom of God that can make a big difference in people’s lives.

I met a nurse who worked in a large city hospital. She was a fairly shy person who didn’t say much but loved her work, and she served with dedication and discipline. She told me that as she came off her shift one night at 11 p.m., a colleague said, “I realized tonight that whenever I’m on the same shift as you, the work seems to go better. That surprised me because often I hardly even notice you are there.” To Jesus, though, that’s not surprising. When we live out our calling to be salt and yeast, we leave noticeable blessings behind.

A well-to-do friend asked me to quietly pass along a sum of his money to a struggling family in our church. They were greatly relieved and asked for the donor’s name so that they could say thanks. I urged them simply to thank God for the love and care they received.

Dying to the desire to be noticed can leave behind powerful, unforgettable blessings.