Sodium Chloride

Sodium Chloride

Let your speech be alway with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may  know how ye ought to answer every man. —Colossians 4:6

I have a weakness for chips—Potato chips, nacho chips, frito chips, etc.  But, I can’t eat them without getting thirsty.  They are salty and salt provokes thirst.

When Jesus said, “Ye are the salt of the earth” (Mt. 5:13), He was describing our job to create a thirst in people for water—Christ, the “LIVING WATER” (John 4:19).

Our speech is to be “seasoned with salt.” This doesn’t mean we should speak hurtfully. Ephesians 4:15 says, we are to speak “the truth in love.”

Consider the composition of salt: Salt is sodium chloride. Sodium is an element found naturally only in combined form – it always links itself to another element. Chlorine, on the other hand, is the poisonous gas that gives bleach its offensive odor.  When sodium and chlorine are combined, the result is sodium chloride—common table salt.

Love and truth can be like sodium and chlorine. Love without truth is capricious, sometimes blind, willing to combine with various doctrines. On the other hand, truth by itself can be offensive and hurtful. Spoken without love, it can turn people away from the gospel.

But, when truth and love are combined in our speech we can create a thirst in others for the Lord Jesus Christ.

Is your speech making people thirsty for Christ, the “living water”?

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