If you season food with salt it will stay fresh for years; let it stand unsalted, and it will soon begin to rot. This is also the case with a man’s words. If they are not salted they will not live. If they are salted they will live for hundreds of years. Paul’s words were salted; they are still living. Jesus says about His words, “My words will never pass away.” That is salt. Our words are always to be with grace, seasoned with salt. Salt is a good thing. Salted words find an entrance into the heart. The upright take them along into eternity. They become their eternal possession.* * * Cain said, “Am I my brother’s keeper?” The eye has a great responsibility. It watches so that the other members do not get involved in things that could harm them. The eyes are particularly watchful where danger might be in the offing. Hands and feet make sure that the eye is not hurt. The members serve each other according to the laws of life. This is also how the members of the body of Christ are to serve each other according to the laws that pertain to the body of Christ.

By Aksel Smith God’s fellow workers are watching over our souls as those who must give account. 1 Cor. 3:9; Heb. 13:17. Seek to meet souls in their current state (1 Cor. 9:22); give them love (1 Pet. 3:8), and lead their thoughts away from that which is human to the divine. Give them encouragement, and do not strike them down. 1 Thess. 2:11-12, 14. Seek to be a voice from God to the soul, and show him the straight way to Christ. Be willing to step aside and be forgotten, and do not dwell on the honor of having been used. Fear to exercise any human pressure on the souls you want to help. Try to find out how God is working with a soul, and then work with this soul in co-operation with the Spirit of God; be willing to wait with this soul and for this soul. Jas. 5:7. Take care not to push souls outside their measure and beyond their knowledge, thus hindering God in His work. We have wronged no one. 2 Cor. 7:2; Isa. 42:3-4. Pray to God for wisdom so that you may see the “grace” in which the soul (according to his experience) stands (Rom. 5:2), and pray the soul onward from there. Do not strike down his life until now as if it amounted to nothing. Acknowledge what is true, and lead him from the light he has to the light you have. You should never reproach a soul because he does not see everything at once. Job 36:15-16; John 16:12; 1 Cor. 3:2. Be silent like Jesus and do not speak about “where people are at” in their spiritual life. Endeavor to promote the unity of the Spirit (Eph. 4:3), and do not dwell on everything that separates. Pour out God’s love over all those who judge you wrongfully. Live to please your neighbor; live for his good, his edification (Rom. 15:2), and be zealous in bearing the others’ un-Christian behavior before God in prayer, but be slow to speak about it. Do not lower yourself to engage in arguments; it only generates strife. 2 Tim. 2:23. Lead the souls to search in the written Word. Have also confidence in the fact that the others’ hearts are sincere in following God’s will. Rom. 14:2.