Colossians 4: 6
Let your speech always be with grace, seasoned, as it were, with salt, so that you may know how you should respond to each person.
Salt is a flavor-enhancer, that makes bland food palatable. It is also a preservative, to keep the food from spoiling.
So our speech needs to be delicious and healthy; not have any corruption or obscenity, nor be insipid or bland.
O Father, how often have I just blurted out something without thinking, without seasoning my words with the salt of grace? Forgive me, Father, help me to repair what damage I have done in my relationships with my words.
Teach me to pause before I open my mouth, to consider the other's need, to say what would encourage them; instead of focusing only on myself.
Help me, Father; put Your kindness under my tongue and Your compassion in my heart. Give me Your stamina to do the work that is before me, and keep me constantly aware of Your holding me in Your hand.
Let my life and my words be a blessing to others You have put in my path, and draw others closer to Yourself through me, as Your channel.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus!
