Seasoned With Salt

Have you ever had popcorn without salt? What about French fries without salt? It tastes very bland doesn’t it? God’s word talks about salt. In Colossians 4:5-6 it says:

Be wise in the way you act toward outsiders; 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.

Salt is a compound made up of sodium and chorine. Sodium by itself reacts violently when mixed with common surroundings like water and air. Sometimes we resemble the element of sodium when surrounded by common people. We react in a way that is not Christ-like. Chlorine is a cleaning element. Chlorine helps clean up the violent affects of sodium when combined to make NaCl, or common table salt. Chlorine helps sodium to have a purpose. Salt does have a strong purpose in our everyday lives.

Salt has many functions. It preserves. It flavors. It’s a healing agent. It causes thirst. When Paul writes that our conversation should be seasoned he means that people should walk away with a healing word. Or they should walk away thirsty for what you have and wonder why they don’t have it. They want the same flavor you have. And when they get it they want to know how to preserve it.

As you have your conversations this week sprinkle a little salt on the way you present your words and phrases. When you are tempted to react in harsh words pray for a cleaning element in your response.