Main Scripture: Let your speech be always with
grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man. Colossians
4:6
I was reading an article where a man had
a situation where his mobile phone was malfunctioning and he called the
customer service department. The lady who answered the call was unreasonable
and unyielding. She kept repeating the same policy manual paragraph to him
without acknowledging his point of view. He was adamant that until somebody
paid attention to this customer’s needs; he was not even going to pay his phone
bill. This resulted in his communications being seriously interrupted for
several days.
The man argued with customer service
for days adamant about bringing his point across until eventually they agreed to
send him to a dealer for a second opinion. In this instance the man decided to
change his attitude. He smiled and greeted the customer service representative
and was very nice to the manager and did not resist when they repeated the same
thing the customer service representative told him before. This new attitude resulted
in him getting a brand new phone, all for free, as a courtesy-exception.
Today’s scripture encourages us to
always be gracious in our speech. As you can see from the story above that the
man situation worsened when he behaved in a difficult manner with the customer service
representative. However, once he changed his attitude and his speech he found
favour with the manager.
The scripture goes further to say
that our speech should be seasoned with salt. What does it mean to have our
speech seasoned with salt? According to one author Mary Fairchild “salt
enhances the natural taste in foods so that we want to eat more. It also makes
us thirsty. Our speech ought to be fresh and inviting, full of spiritual
flavor, causing others to be desirous, hungry, and thirsty to hear more.”
If I should be honest God is still working on me in this area, however in order for us to be successful spiritually and
otherwise, we need to consider the spiritual flavor of our speech. The fact is
that even though you did not mean anything by words you utter it may harm
someone for a lifetime.
Therefore ladies, my encouragement to
you today is to practice being graceful in your speech, what you say can either
bring life to someone or kill them. Let your words bring life.
Let’s Pray,
Oh Lord, we thank you for this word
today. Father we pray that you will help us to be gracious about our speech.
Help us to use our words to uplift, encourage, heal and build persons instead
of killing them
In Jesus Name
