Pass The Salt

“Let your conversations be always full of grace, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how to answer everyone.” Col 4:6

I have a friend who contacted me regarding an article she had read relating to suicide. She has recently had to experience this devastating reality in her own family. I read the article which overall spoke of trusting God’s ability to comfort and to deliver. The aspect of God being bigger than all of our problems was undercut by the judgmental harshness of the author’s opinion wherein she spoke of suicide being a selfish act.

Aren’t all of our choices and actions when distant from God self-acts? Aren’t we all of a sinful nature and require God’s daily redemption guarding us against our own self?

This judgmental article wounded my friend on top of deep injuries that already penetrate her heart. Thankfully, my friend is a devout Christian but what if she wouldn’t have been? If we are to be the salt of the world we should be seasoned with God’s knowledge and loving grace. When spreading the faith, Christ did not promise eternal life through condemnation but rather through His surrendered life. So, why do we are Christians feel the need to judge and discredit the very faith for which we are trying to build?

Let us determine before we speak the seasoning for which we wish to pass. Should we pass the salt of grace or instead pepper our faith with condemnation?