WORDS SEASONED WITH SALT!
6 Let your speech be alway with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man.
I’m going to give up a trade secret among ministers this morning. There are times when we get sick and tired of being “nice.” We get tired to death of restraining ourselves from giving certain individuals a valuable piece of our mind because they seem not to have much of a mind themselves. We grow morbidly weary of being called upon to pray some magic little prayer that will eliminate the consequences of stupidity. How we sometimes envy those whose task in life is to stand in some assembly line and unendingly attach some widget to some gadget. Perhaps this is why the majority of ministers resist the call to such a life. Nevertheless we press ahead armed with words seasoned with salt!
1. GRACIOUS WORDS!
Eph 4:29 KJV
29 Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers.
These are fair words, inoffensive words and not bitter, slanderous or filthy. These are wholesome words, yes, even words that help to moderate the consequences of stupidity for we remember the grace of God freely given to us when we had stupidly injured ourselves.
Rom 15:1 KJV
15:1 We then that are strong ought to bear the infirmities of the weak, and not to please ourselves.
2. WELL SEASONED WORDS!
Prov 25:11-12 KJV
11 A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of silver.
12 As an earring of gold, and an ornament of fine gold, so is a wise reprover upon an obedient ear.
The minister, above all others, must learn to be a “wise reprover;” One who points out glaring faults with the goal of making a change. He must pray that his words fall upon an obedient ear.
Dear Lord, today let my words be appropriate and beneficial to those who hear them. AMEN
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