Paul is reminding the church that it is essential that we pray and live in such a way that we will impact people around us with the Good News of Jesus! It is so important how we live our lives because people won't want to hear a word we say when our actions are inconsistent with our message!
Then there are our words! Do our everyday conversations add flavor and goodness to life? I know for my own journey I continue to work on two areas of my tongue -
1. Sarcasm is a negative humor that I resort to a times when I am trying to hide my true feelings. Often the flavor of sarcasm is more like the flavor of habanero peppers instead of salt. Sarcasm is rarely full of grace and it seldom has an answer that people are looking for in my words.
2. Harshness in my responses when I get pushed in a corner. I continue to work on this reality that when I don't communicate well with people in the first place - that I will allow things to build up and "BAM" some pretty harsh word can come out of my mouth. I am sure my wife and family know this more than the rest of the world. I can usually see the reasons for these outburst along with failing to communicate up front and they are things like lack of sleep and stress that cause these words to come out when I wish they wouldn't have been said.
Evaluate your conversations today - are your word like a seasoning salt that brings flavor or are they more like habanero's that bring pain?
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