Colossians 4:6 Let your speech be alway with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man.
Years ago when my wife and I were first married we made our first trip to the grocery store.  We went down an isle where there were hundreds of little bottles.  My dear wife started picking out those little bottles of spices and placing them in the cart.  I looked at her and said… Do we really need all of that?  She said if you want me to cook I do!  Well, she likes to cook and I like to eat!  So I quickly agreed.  There are only two seasonings mentioned in our text today concerning our words, grace and salt.  Just like the seasons isle at the grocery store there are hundreds of ways to speak.  But God’s people should concentrate on speech that is seasoned with grace and salt.  Have you ever heard someone say… it’s not what you said, but how you said it.  If we could just stop and think before we speak… Is this how I would want to be spoken to?  Will what I’m about to say be pleasing to the Lord?  Let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, is the admonition in scripture.   Speak with grace, it will benefit everyone involved.  The salt in our speech is a preservative.  Many relationships have been destroyed by saltless speech.  The salty speech will go a long way in preserving marriages, friendships, as well as our testimony for the Lord!  Amen.  Pastor