Seasoned With Salt

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I’m Doug Apple...and my heart is on fire.  (Luke 24:32)

Colossians 4:6 says, “Let your speech always be with grace, seasoned with salt…”

Speaking with grace might seem obvious, but what does it mean “seasoned with salt”?

Here’s one way to look at it.  Seasoned with salt makes it delicious and people want more of it!

How do most people feel about potato chips without salt?  Yuck…that’s how they feel about it.

How about peanuts without salt?  Or meat without salt?  Or maybe worst of all…popcorn without salt!  On and on it goes.

But put a little salt on those chips and look out…you can’t stop with just one.  You want more and more.  Why?  It’s the salt, man!

So the question is…is our speech like that?

Colossians 4:6 says, “Let your speech always be with grace, seasoned with salt…”

Ephesians 4:29 says that our speech should “impart grace.”  Does our speech impart grace?  Does the other person feel the grace when we speak?  Are we imparting grace if they don’t feel any grace?

Here’s one way we can know if we are speaking with grace and imparting grace.  People will want more!

True grace is a balm to our soul.  When we get it, we love it, and we want more.  Just like a person wants more of those chips seasoned with salt, they want more of those words seasoned with grace.

Sometimes in the church we lean on harsh words and judgment and criticism.  We think people are going to get better when we lay down the law, and yet Romans 2:4 says that God’s KINDNESS leads us to repentance.  It’s God’s grace toward us, giving us what we don’t deserve, and NOT giving us what we DO deserve.  That’s grace.

So let’s do better.  Let’s fill our speech with grace that it may impart grace to the hearers.  And instead of pushing people away, they will be drawn in and want to hear more, because speaking with grace is like adding a hint of salt.  It tastes so you good you just want more and more and more.

May God bless you today.

I’m Doug Apple.