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Colossians 4:6
6 Let your [humon] speech [logos] be alway [pantote] with [en] grace, [charis] seasoned [artuo] with salt, [halas] that ye may know [eido] how [pos] ye [humas] ought [dei] to answer [apokrinomai] every [hekastos] man. [heis] KJV-Interlinear
6 Let your speech always be with grace, seasoned, as it were, with salt, so that you may know how you should respond to each person. NASB
Grace stands for poise. Salt stands for truth or Bible doctrine. Neither of these stand for compromise or the allowance of false principles to be mixed in with truth.
All too often folks want to be politically correct so as not to insult anyone. However, if anyone is insulted, then they are lacking in truth, shallow and arrogant. And their deficiency should never become an excuse for diminishing truth.
Lately there has been a lot of coexistence rhetoric in the media, in entertainment, and even in bumper stickers. The little signs seem harmless enough when they include images from the major religions, however they are as evil as evil can get.
If there is but one God, one faith, one Savior, one truth, then all the rest are lies. How can one include lies in ones life, knowing that they will lead others to eternal destruction? What honor is there in that?
And although we are to stand firm in truth (salt), Gods policy of grace gives us leeway to tolerate the opinions of others (not respect them), while never forcing others to see things our way.
Truth needs no crutch to hold it up. Truth needs no support, no added effort on our part. Truth makes itself known and clear to all who hear it. But truth will never force itself on those who reject it.
Never allow peer pressure make you deviate from truth. Never allow the need or want of social inclusion, make you deviate from truth. Never allow ostracism, make you deviate from truth.
Always hold your spiritual ground within your own soul, while tolerating the views of others, but not succumbing to their false ways.
Allow doctrine (truth) to guide your walk through life. Do not allow life to guide you, without doctrine.
