Good Morning Friends,
“Be wise in the way you act toward outsiders;
make the most of every opportunity. Let your conversation be always full of
grace, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how to answer everyone.”
(Colossians 4:5-6)
People who have not experienced God’s love
are watching what we do and listening to what we say. Their lives will be
impacted by our actions and our words. Perhaps our interactions with them will
be the closest they ever come to able to watch and listen to someone of faith. That
means every interaction is an opportunity. It’s an opportunity to do damage to
the impact of the Gospel on their lives. It is an opportunity to enhance the
impact of the Gospel on their lives. The difference will be in how we exhibit
wisdom and grace in our lives.
Wisdom means that we don’t act as though sin
doesn’t matter. Sin deeply grieves God’s heart and we desperately need wisdom
to know how to express God’s view of sin without coming across as judgmental
and harsh. That’s not an easy task and we will fail at it many times, but that’s
our goal.
Grace means that we don’t act as though there
is no hope for those whose lives are bound in sin. God longs to pour out His
grace on their lives and He implores us to respond by demonstrating His grace
ourselves. That’s not an easy task, either, and we will fail at it many times,
but that is our goal.
Wisdom and grace … sometimes they seem like
opposite, almost contradictory responses to the people around us. That makes us
realize ever more fully how much we need God’s Spirit to guide and God’s wisdom
to inform us.
His, by Grace,
Steve
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