This afternoon, I had a conversation with two different people about the same topic and it's been tugging on my heart to write about.
We were talking about how important it is to talk about the good and the positive even more than we talk about the negative and the chaotic.
And the truth is.....there’s no shortage of darkness being spoken about.
Have you noticed how society seems to be drawn like a magnet to bad news, drama, and chaos?
It’s as if the unruly, the lawless, and the destructive get the loudest microphone.
Why?
I believe it’s because for so many people, that’s what’s happening inside of them. Darkness validates darkness. If they can point to the evil “out there,” they don’t have to deal with the brokenness “in here.”
They can scroll, watch, and consume the chaos without being faced with the reality that they need healing.
But if you belong to Jesus, that’s not our calling.
We aren’t here to blend in with the shadows.....we’re here to push them back.
Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on a hill cannot be hid. - Matthew 5:14
We are called to be the light of Christ shining in a dark and sinful world.
And light isn’t timid.
It doesn’t apologize for
breaking into darkness.
It pierces it, changes it,
and reveals what was hidden.
The lost, the blinded, the dying......they need to hear Jesus. They need to see Him through us!
And here’s something we can’t forget......people aren’t drawn to Christ because we point out every wrong in the world. They’re drawn when they see something in us that they can’t find anywhere else.....the love of God lived out in word, action, and truth.
By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another. John 13:35
That means our speech matters.
What we choose to post, share, or talk about matters.
Our tone matters.
We can either sound like the rest of the world.....angry, hopeless, sarcastic....OR we can sound like citizens of Heaven, speaking life and truth.
Let your speech be always with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man. - Colossians 4:6
If our feed, our conversations, and our testimony are filled with the same negativity that the world is drowning in, how will they see the difference??? How will they see Jesus???
We are in a culture that celebrates outrage! People will always find something to be offended about, something to tear apart, something to argue over. But as followers of Christ, we are called to be the voice that calms the storm, not one more wave crashing into the chaos.
Paul put it this way...
Do all things without murmurings and disputings: That ye may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world; Holding forth the word of life…- Philippians 2:14–16a
If we want to be a light, we have to speak light.
If we want to show the love of Christ, we have to choose love even when the world chooses hate.
If we want the world to see hope, we have to offer it freely even when our own circumstances are difficult.
So here’s my challenge to myself.....AND to you:
Let’s speak life more than we speak death.
Let’s spread peace more than we spread panic.
Let’s share truth more than we share trouble.
Because every single word we speak either adds to the darkness…
or fuels the light!
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