How do we use our words? Do we strive to use them kindly, to build others up? Or do we tend to tear people down? Our reading from Ephesians today talks about how we speak to one another. Our speech is to be not corrupting. It is to be fitting to the occasion. It is to give grace.
It always amazes me when people decide they are going to follow Ephesians 4:25 by speaking the truth, but then do it in a way which is malicious and harmful. When we do that we make ourselves imitators of Satan rather than imitators of God. May we have grace to speak the truth but in a way and at a time to encourage and give grace.
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