Make the most of every opportunity. Let your conversation be always full of grace, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how to answer everyone.
--Colossians 4:5-6
Many of us have heard the phrase "you might be the only Jesus that someone ever sees." And we understand that this means that the way in which we live reflects on the way in which people judge us as Christians.
These verses in Colossians challenge us to do even more. They tell us to take every opportunity to spread the good news and be prepared to share the Gospel. But one phrase in the verses takes a little more in depth discussion. Paul tells the church at Colossae to have conversation that is "seasoned with salt". So how do you do that?
I admit that, despite my doctor's advice, I salt everything. It's the spice that I seem to see in order to be able to have my food taste the way I want it to. And Paul is telling the young Christians that they need to be able to season their conversations with something that makes their conversations and arguments "full of grace". What he's talking about is scripture.
We need to be able to share the good news whenever we are able. And in order to do this, we need to be able to salt the conversation with the solid truths of God the creator, Jesus his Son and the Holy Spirit. Take time each day to prepare the spices you need to salt your conversations with others. Study scripture and be prepared to use it to "salt" your conversations. Be the salt of the earth to those who need some "spicing up in their life".
++Richard
--Colossians 4:5-6
Many of us have heard the phrase "you might be the only Jesus that someone ever sees." And we understand that this means that the way in which we live reflects on the way in which people judge us as Christians.
These verses in Colossians challenge us to do even more. They tell us to take every opportunity to spread the good news and be prepared to share the Gospel. But one phrase in the verses takes a little more in depth discussion. Paul tells the church at Colossae to have conversation that is "seasoned with salt". So how do you do that?
I admit that, despite my doctor's advice, I salt everything. It's the spice that I seem to see in order to be able to have my food taste the way I want it to. And Paul is telling the young Christians that they need to be able to season their conversations with something that makes their conversations and arguments "full of grace". What he's talking about is scripture.
We need to be able to share the good news whenever we are able. And in order to do this, we need to be able to salt the conversation with the solid truths of God the creator, Jesus his Son and the Holy Spirit. Take time each day to prepare the spices you need to salt your conversations with others. Study scripture and be prepared to use it to "salt" your conversations. Be the salt of the earth to those who need some "spicing up in their life".
++Richard
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