49 For everyone will be salted with fire. 50 Salt is good, but if the salt has lost its saltiness, how will you make it salty again? Have salt in yourselves, and be at peace with one another.”
Colossians 4:6
6 Let your speech always be gracious, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how you ought to answer each person.
- What is salt valuable for?
- How does salt lose its saltiness?
- What does it mean to have salt in you?
- How does salt relate to peace with each other?
- What does gracious, seasoned speech sound like?
Salt-free potato chips, blah! Scrambled eggs without salt, blah! Some foods are just unpalatable to me without salt. Have I forced down the above mentioned foods? Yes, but I did not enjoy them. On the other hand, we were at a fast-food restaurant and the cheeseburgers we were served were so salty that we could not eat them. The amount of salt used determines how good the food tastes. So it is with what we say. We are not called to be bland and unpalatable. Nor are we called to be as salty as the Dead Sea. Our words should bring peace not arguments. Our words should bring salvation, but carefully and graciously seasoned. Listen today and see how your speech tastes to others.
1 comment:
I heard once that salt never really loses its saltiness--it just becomes diluted by something else to the point that it is no longer noticable. I wonder how diluted we are by the world(?)
Still reading,
Holly
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