COLOSSIANS 4:6
I remember once taking a bite of a chicken and rice dish. It was most likely the blandest thing I had ever eaten. Needless to say, I didn’t savor every bite. If you think about it, that is precisely how my conversations can be if I am not careful of what I say. Jesus said we are “the salt of the earth” (Matthew 5:13). Food should not be bland, and neither should our words. Salt is what makes bland food worth eating, and Christians can help to make a bland life worth living. As a teen girl, I have a tendency to gossip and to criticize. I can be quite sarcastic and opinionated. These things don’t add flavor to life. If anything, they take away from it. Instead as a teen girl, and more importantly as a teen girl who is striving to be a godly woman, I should use my mouth to say things that are glorifying to God and edifying to those around me—things that put a little bit of heaven into life on earth. We should say more and chatter less. Jesus also said, “If the salt loses its saltiness, how can it be made salty again? It is no longer good for anything but to be thrown out and trampled by men.” We should make sure to make our words count, to make them the “salt of the earth,” because we only have a short time on this planet to make a difference for Christ.
Caroline J. Hornok, 15, Veritas Academy, Texarkana, TX
Help me to make the most of the time
I have, Christ Jesus. I want to enhance
people’s lives, not bring them down.