By Aneta Dodd
Walk in wisdom toward
those who are outside, redeeming the time. Let your speech always be with
grace, seasoned with salt, that you may know how you ought to answer each
one. (Colossians 4:5-6)
I enjoy salt on many of
my meats and vegetables. Salt can bring out the flavors and make the food
more desirable. God tells us to “Let our speech” (be) seasoned with
salt.” Our speech should be such that the lost soul desires to hear us and
is not turned away by our speech.
But avoid foolish and
ignorant disputes, knowing that they generate strife. And a servant of the
Lord must not quarrel but be gentle to all, able to teach, patient, in
humility, correcting those who are in opposition, if God perhaps will grant
them repentance, so that they may know the truth, and that they may come to
their senses and escape the snare of the devil, having been taken captive by
him to do his will. (2 Timothy 2:23-26)
Sometimes the salt
loses its saltiness and becomes unprofitable.
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 men.
(Matthew 5:18)
Our speech can also lose
its flavor and become unprofitable. But avoid foolish
disputes, genealogies, contentions, and strivings about the law; for they
are unprofitable and useless. (Titus 3:9)
Therefore, let’s check
our tongues before we speak to insure that they are salted with love and
will help to preserve the Church of our Lord Jesus Christ!
