Colossians 4: 6
Let your conversation be always full of grace, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how to answer everyone.
Conversation refers to our words, how we talk to one another. Words have great power--God's Word created, and our words are either life or death.
So we must remember God's grace that He gave us in Christ, and extend it to our hearers. Grace, the good we do not deserve.
Seasoned with salt--not only to enhance flavor, but also to preserve.
So we need to think about how our words will be heard. Are we encouraging or discouraging others? Are we fracturing or healing our relationships?
O my Father, please give me Your words; let me see others through Your eyes of mercy and grace; help me hear with Your understanding to perceive the wounds and hurts behind the words. Please teach me discernment between honesty and deception.
Please teach me how to heal my family, or keep me out of Your way as You work as our Great Physician. Heal our relationships, and grant repentance to those who do not know You yet. Defeat our enemy's destructive tactics to splinter my family, and draw us all to Yourself.
And You will receive all the glory and honor and praise for everything You have done in weaving Your great and beautiful Tapestry of Time.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus!
