Colossians 4:6(KJV)
Let your speech be always with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man.
There is a vast difference between salty speech and speech seasoned with salt. Salty speech is offensive, sarcastic, sharp, and bitter. Speech seasoned with salt is attractive, appetizing, flavorful, and tasteful. It fulfills the very words of Jesus who urged His disciples to "have salt in yourselves." (Mark 9:50)
In sharing our faith with others, we need to be able to capture their interest and keep their attention. One way to do that is to make sure our speech is well seasoned with salt. Just as salt adds appeal to food, so it adds appeal to our witness to others.
Salt enhanves and enriches; it adds flavor to that which is dull, bland, tasteless. Well seasoned speech adds flavor to the Bread of Life which we share with others to enhance and enrich their lives. Salt is used as a preservative; it prevents corruption in meat. Likewise, "the meat of the Word" which we share with others can be kept pure and incorrupt when our speech is well seasoned with salt.
Salt produces thirst. Well salted speech can actually stimulate a thirst for the Water of Life.
There is a vast difference between salty speech and speech seasoned with salt. Salty speech is offensive, sarcastic, sharp, and bitter. Speech seasoned with salt is attractive, appetizing, flavorful, and tasteful. It fulfills the very words of Jesus who urged His disciples to "have salt in yourselves." (Mark 9:50)
In sharing our faith with others, we need to be able to capture their interest and keep their attention. One way to do that is to make sure our speech is well seasoned with salt. Just as salt adds appeal to food, so it adds appeal to our witness to others.
Salt enhanves and enriches; it adds flavor to that which is dull, bland, tasteless. Well seasoned speech adds flavor to the Bread of Life which we share with others to enhance and enrich their lives. Salt is used as a preservative; it prevents corruption in meat. Likewise, "the meat of the Word" which we share with others can be kept pure and incorrupt when our speech is well seasoned with salt.
Salt produces thirst. Well salted speech can actually stimulate a thirst for the Water of Life.
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