Reasoned and Seasoned

“Let your speech always be with grace, seasoned with salt, so that you will know how you should respond to every person,” (Colossians 4:6).

When our talk is primarily heat, we obscure the light. Salt draws flavor out, grace blesses. Our witness is to be winsomely flavorful; the aim of witness is to reveal Jesus Christ and bless others.

Winning an argument is not our goal, winning hearts to Jesus is – are we willing to lose in order to win? Are we willing to put ourselves last so that Jesus can be first?

We forget that what we see is simply the product of the world, of what people have been taught. We also forget that we were once dead in our own trespasses and sins. Oh how we forget who we once were; how self-righteous we are – how pompous. What is the point in winning an argument but losing a soul?

If Christ Jesus does not define us, if He is not our identity, if anything or anyone else takes His place…then not only do we fall short of our calling…but others will look at the caricature of Jesus and Christianity in our warped thinking and actions and think, “I want no part of that.”

Our speech should be both reasoned and seasoned.