“Conduct yourselves with wisdom toward outsiders, making the most of the opportunity. Let your speech always be with grace, as though seasoned with salt, so that you will know how you should respond to each person” (Colossians 4:5-6).
Wisdom is an applied combination of understanding, knowledge, and finesse. Those around you do not want to be treated as objects, nor as idiots any more than you want to be treated by others this way. Sharing the faith is a matter of sharing. You are selling nothing. Come then and live into the life that Christ gives you and be leaven in your community. Live the faith and others will see that you live differently.
Lord, teach me not to be one who is pushing, nor selling, but humbly living the faith You have given me. Guide me in Your example to be one hundred percent in, but also myself, loving others as You have loved me. Guide me, O Lord, in the way of truth so that I may now and always be guided by You in the hope You give me by grace. Let the salt in me be salty always.
Lord Jesus, You told us to let our light so shine that others would see what we do and glorify the Father. Guide me in the way of this hope and promise in order that I may live today doing just that. Guide me to be consistent in all I do knowing that in You alone is all hope and the promise of eternal life. In You, Lord, I have a future. May You season my life with Your presence and purpose. Amen.
