Let your speech always be with grace, seasoned with salt, that you may know how you ought to answer each one. Co4.6
When it comes to salt, having it “just right,“ is about the only way to have it at all. Salt is one of those things where it is not desirable to have either too much or too little. Some of us have been the unfortunate victim of the restaurant prank where someone loosens the cap on the salt shaker and out comes half the bottle when you try to salt your meal. I have dumped a number of over salted meals in the trash. Conversely, Brenda and I keep salt in the car for those times we discover a bag of unsalted fries, of course after we have pulled away from a fast food place.
Sometimes the manner in which we bear witness to Christ is like pouring too much salt on food. This God in your face kind of witness does not bring out the flavor of Christ but makes our witness unpalatable.
I have been on the giving and receiving end of forcing God into a conversation. Would we not prefer that our guess ask us to pass the salt than push an over salted plate away. Better yet, is a life seasoned “just right,” where the salt of our witness is neither lacking nor overpowering. A friend of mine once wrote, “What we say about the God should be tasty enough to whet someone’s appetite for more.”
May our words enable our friends and neighbors to taste the goodness of God in us. 5/8/07 ts
