Our Speech Should Reveal

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

    While our conversations and talk should be much about the grace of God to us in Christ Jesus, and we should take advantage of every opportunity to talk about the doctrines of grace and salvation by grace alone, not by works and human merit, yet this is not what Paul refers to in this scripture. He is saying that our speech, conversation, and communication with others should be such that it reveals a work of God's grace within us; that our language and words should show forth the fruit of the Spirit, which is love, joy, humility, and faith; that our speech should reveal to others that we have, indeed, been with Jesus Christ. To speak with grace is to tell the truth, to speak the truth in love, to speak kindly and pleasantly, and to avoid sowing discord and division. Harsh words reveal a hard heart. Grace is to the speech what salt is to meat. It makes it acceptable, good to the ear, and a blessing to the heart. Grace in the heart will teach us how we ought to answer to every man!