Seasoned with Salt

It's been a while since I have blogged, Tweeted or Face-booked - and there is a good reason for that. Simply put, I needed a break from social media.  So does this blog mean I am back?  Well, yes and no...

I recently read a tweet that simply said "Pray before you Tweet". To be honest, that stuck with me for a while and I started doing just that.  I want every conversation, spoken or written to be God honoring and there are times we are tempted to post or respond to a comment on social media that are not pleasing to God.  God's Word exhorts us to:  "Let your speech always be gracious, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how you ought to answer each person." (Colossians 4:6)

That said, there have also been quite a number of things going on around me the last couple of weeks and as I see friends hurting and struggling with issues I did not want to see how they are commenting on social media lest I be tempted to add my own bit. Instead, I have had to focus on what God's Word says - it's better reading anyway :)


During our trials we often find ourselves  "Afflicted in every way, but not crushed; perplexed, but not driven to despair; persecuted, but not forsaken; struck down, but not destroyed because we rejoice in the hope of the glory of God. More than that, we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, and the hope that we have in you does not put us to shame, because God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us."

Thank you Jesus that we have this treasure in jars of clay, to show that the surpassing power belongs to God and not to us.  So my friends, do not lose heart. "Though our outer self is wasting away, our inner self is being renewed day by day. For this light momentary affliction is preparing for us an eternal weight of glory beyond all comparison, as we look not to the things that are seen but to the things that are unseen. For the things that are seen are transient, but the things that are unseen are eternal"
Romans 5:2-5; 2 Corinthians 4:7-18