Salty Speech?

Let your speech always be gracious, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how you ought to answer each person.

Colossians 4:6

If someone, who did not know you, where to look at your social media would they know that you are a follower of Jesus Christ? Are your posts consistent with the teachings of Christ? Do your comments reflect the Lord you serve? Do your conversations and your speech represent your love for Jesus Christ?  If we belong to Christ our speech should reveal to all those around us that we are His.

John MacArthur writes,

“There is no place for those things that characterize the unredeemed mouth. Whether undergoing persecution, stress, difficulty, or injustice, whether with your spouse, children, believers, or unbelievers—in all circumstances believers are to make gracious speech a habit. To speak with grace means to say what is spiritual, wholesome, fitting, kind, sensitive, purposeful, complementary, gentle, truthful, loving, and thoughtful.”

The next time you decide to speak, post, or comment, stop and ask yourself, “Does what I’m about to say reveal that I am a follower of Christ?” As believers, we should echo the prayer of the psalmist in Psalm 141:3: “Set a guard, O Lord, over my mouth; keep watch over the door of my lips.”

Your shepherd,

Pastor Mark