
Col. 4:6 “Let your speech always be with grace, and seasoned with salt, so that you will know how you should respond to each person.”
Our speech should always be with GRACE and SALT. Grace means to always be loving and caring realizing that we are all sinners and at the same level before our Lord. To season it with salt means to always be truthful and not depart from the truth. In other words, our speech should contain both the elements of love and something that pricks our conscience.
The Lord Jesus used both grace and salt. For example, when the Lord came before the women caught in adultery He said: “Neither do I condemn you. That’s the grace. Then He said “Go, and sin no more.” That’s the salt. With the Samaritan woman at Jacob’s well He said: “Give Me a drink.” That’s the grace. Then He said “Go, call your husband.” That’s something of the salt. She had had 5 previous husbands and was now just living with a man who wasn’t her husband.
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