Colossians 4:5-7 (New International Version)
5Be wise in the way you act toward outsiders; make the most of every opportunity. 6Let your conversation be always full of grace, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how to answer everyone.
From the MHC:
Persons of all ranks to persevere in prayer, and Christian prudence.
No duties can be done aright, unless we persevere in fervent prayer, and watch therein with thanksgiving. The people are to pray particularly for their ministers. Believers are exhorted to right conduct towards unbelievers. Be careful in all converse with them, to do them good, and recommend religion by all fit means. Diligence in redeeming time, commends religion to the good opinion of others.
Even what is only carelessness may cause a lasting prejudice against the truth. Let alldiscourse be discreet and seasonable, as becomes Christians. Though it be not always of grace, it must always be with grace. Though our discourse be of that which is common, yet it must be in a Christian manner.
Grace is the salt which seasons our discourse, and keeps it from corrupting. It is not enough to answer what is asked, unless we answer aright also. (Col 4:7-9)
What a powerful reminder of our words and our actions and how it can and does bear either good or bear testimony to others.
How many times have we said we were one thing, but then act in a way or do things in a way that makes us look or sound no different from that of a sin-filled world and then wonder why someone reacted as they did to us.
Or justify our actions not on our Father’s terms but in the world’s term to the point that we meld more with the world and how it deems we should act, less than with our Father and how He calls us to act.
Truth is…there is no place in His word for us to act like the world.
Pride, Jealousy, Lying, Gossipping, partaking of the world as if we are more of an “atheist” than a follower.
Ouch.
But truth is…how are we to stand apart from the world like a lighthouse, shining His Word when we choose to have swinging lanterns that half the time the lights are out?
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Ouch is right…thanks for the reminders….
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