One of the difficulties we face in speech as believers is when we are confronted. We can always learn to talk appropriately as long as the conversations are smooth. But when we are offended or humiliated or criticized or judged wrongly, how are we to communicate? Should we keep quite or should we give a fitting answer?
I guess both seems to be little on the inappropriate side. Sometimes to defend ourselves we need to speak and not be quiet. In such instances keeping quiet may prove unfit for the situation. At the same time when humiliated or criticized we should not burst off for we may be responding like an unbeliever. But we should speak calmly yet firmly like the way Jesus did when He was confronted by the Pharisees and the Sadducee's.
Colossians 4:6 (New American Standard Bible)
Let your speech always be with grace, as though seasoned with salt, so that you will know how you should respond to each person.
What a wonderful exhortation for speech. May the Lord give us all wisdom and grace so that we may know how to speak with grace. Amen.
Yeah, it's really very important for us as believers to speak appropriately, whatever the situation. And we can get that from God only by daily prayers and by His grace.
ReplyDeleteGod bless u to write such good things and be a blessing to us always.