{"id":234,"date":"2014-04-03T13:10:29","date_gmt":"2014-04-03T17:10:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/?p=234"},"modified":"2021-07-08T12:49:51","modified_gmt":"2021-07-08T16:49:51","slug":"salty-christians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/2014\/04\/03\/salty-christians\/","title":{"rendered":"Salty Christians"},"content":{"rendered":"

“When you speak your piece you lose your peace.” – unknown<\/strong><\/p>\n

When I read the above quote the other day, it reminded me of the following thought: As Christians, the Bible says we are the salt of the earth \u2013 <\/b>\u201cYe are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be salted?…\u201d  Matthew 5:13 <\/i><\/strong> We can find one characteristic of Salty Christians in Colossians 4:6<\/strong><\/em> <\/i>\u2013 <\/i><\/b>\u201cLet your speech be alway with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man.\u201d  <\/i><\/strong>Salty Christians are gracious-speaking Christians. Notice, the last part of this verse says that a gracious-speaking Christian – a Salty Christian – will know how to answer every man. No, that verse doesn\u2019t limit our gracious responses to those who have just spoken kindly to us. Salty Christians speak graciously to EVERY<\/strong> man. As a reminder, I have written beside this verse, \u201cthere is never a reason to tell someone off\u201c.  The \u201cshort fuse\u201d we may have had before salvation should be getting longer and longer the more we grow as a  Christian. This morning, the Lord seemed to further emphasize this thought as Bethany shared in our Bible time what she had just read, \u201cAnd all bare him witness, and wondered at the gracious words which proceeded out of his mouth\u2026\u201d <\/i><\/strong>Luke 4:22<\/strong><\/em> A characteristic of true Christ-likeness will be displayed by gracious speaking. <\/b><\/p>\n

Although James 3 speaks of the extreme difficulty of governing our tongue, we are still commanded in II Peter 3:18 to \u201cgrow in grace\u201d, and this continual growing process would certainly include our speech. This \u201clittle member\u201d called the tongue may try to give each of us fits from time-to-time but, if it is our heart\u2019s desire to keep tighter reins, God\u2019s grace will be sufficient as we rely on Him for strength.<\/i>  <\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

\u201cThou art fairer than the children of men: grace is poured into thy lips\u2026\u201d  Psalm 45:2<\/i><\/strong><\/p>\n

~ Rachel ~<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“When you speak your piece you lose your peace.” – unknown When I read the above quote the other day, it reminded me of the following thought: As Christians, the Bible says we are the salt of the earth \u2013 \u201cYe are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be salted?…\u201d  Matthew 5:13  We can find one characteristic of Salty Christians in Colossians 4:6 \u2013 \u201cLet your speech be alway with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man.\u201d  Salty Christians are gracious-speaking Christians. Notice, the last part of this verse says that a gracious-speaking Christian – a Salty Christian – will know how to answer every man. No, that verse doesn\u2019t limit our gracious responses to those who have just spoken kindly to us. Salty Christians speak graciously to EVERY man. As a reminder, I have written beside this verse, \u201cthere is never a reason to tell someone off\u201c.  The \u201cshort fuse\u201d we may have had before salvation should be getting longer and longer the more we grow as a  Christian. This morning, the Lord seemed to further emphasize this thought as Bethany shared in our Bible time what she had just read, \u201cAnd all bare him witness, and wondered at the gracious words which proceeded out of his mouth\u2026\u201d Luke 4:22 A characteristic of true Christ-likeness will be displayed by gracious speaking. Although James 3 speaks of the extreme difficulty of governing our tongue, we are still commanded in II Peter 3:18 to \u201cgrow in grace\u201d, and this continual growing process would certainly include our speech. This \u201clittle member\u201d called the tongue may try to give each of us fits from time-to-time but, if it is our heart\u2019s desire to keep tighter reins, God\u2019s grace will be sufficient as we rely on Him for strength.   \u201cThou art fairer than the children of men: grace is poured into thy lips\u2026\u201d  Psalm 45:2 ~ Rachel ~<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[28,7,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anger","category-growing","category-the-tongue"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4o6C2-3M","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11154,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234\/revisions\/11154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}