Let your speech be always with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man (Col. 4:6 KJV)
God needs us to have salt ready with us in all our activities including communications. God who gave us life and all that is about life knows how best to manage life. As would every product manufacturer, God delivered to us His product, Life, with the attending techniques to maintain it delivered in the Bible. To manage life with salt will both be tough and rough; it would indeed be catastrophic. Kindly note.
About salt and life, the Bible says, Salt is good: but if the salt have lost his saltness, wherewith will ye season it? Have salt in yourselves and have peace one with another. (Mark 9:50 KJV). Notice, how the Bible says, “Salt is good…have salt in yourselves,”. It is cognitive and imperative to note that Salt is good, and we need to have salt in ourselves.
The notion of Salt and having Salt in us is a metaphor, an allegory, a simile, and representation to gain and manage life with a tool, implement, ingredient and component that both provides seasoning and preservative as naturally does the Salt.
Salt is a naturally occurring mineral compound, essential for human life. It regulates fluid balance, nerve function and muscle contraction. The natural effect of no or low Salt in human body includes, confusion, fatigue, headache, irritability, restlessness, etc. and in severe cases, it could lead to shock, come and death.
Akin to the effect of Salt in the human physiology, so is Wisdom in Man’s empirical life, true life and living experiences.
Beloved, Wisdom is good and like Salt, have Wisdom in yourselves. Be Wise
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