So, let’s talk – - “Uh, let’s see…we could talk about the weather or about the family. How about the rising cost of just about everything? Politics? Did you hear about…?”[@more@]
This conversation is headed for trouble!
God has given us something to talk about. In these last days as the Bride of Christ is being perfected, so her speech should be that of “perfection” or maturity in godliness. It’s time we sounded like our Heavenly Father!
Instruction number 4 – - I Peter 4:11, “If anyone speaks, let him speak as the oracles of God.”
The word “speaks” here means that anytime you open your mouth to breathe out sounds or intelligent utterances they should be as the oracles of God. No, that doesn’t mean that everything is a prophecy. The oracles of God are all that He has declared, established and manifested in His word.
In Psalms 96, David lifts his voice and declares, “ Oh sing to the Lord a new song! Sing to the Lord all the earth. Sing to the Lord, bless His name; Proclaim the good news of His salvation from day to day. Declare His glory among the nations, His wonders among all peoples.” Deuteronomy 6:6 says, “And these words which I command you today shall be in your heart. You shall teach them diligently to your children and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, when you walk by the way, when you lie down, and when you rise up.”
It’s not just what we say but how we say it. Look at Colossians 4:6, “Let your speech always be with grace, seasoned with salt, that you may know how you ought to answer each one.”
Paul exhorted the Ephesians in this way, “Let all bitterness, wrath, anger, clamor, and evil speaking be put away from you, with all malice.” (Ephesians 4:31)
What’s left? He continues in another passage, “And do not be drunk with wine, in which is excess, but be filled with the Spirit speaking to one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord.”
Now that should make for interesting conversation!
Rev. Tura Zapata, Texas USA