Expressing an opinion on a particular topic is easy: we open our mouths, or turn on our blogs, and we speak our minds. However, what happens when our minds becomes the absolute? What happens when our opinion becomes God? This is part of the problem with mainstream media and politics, but this is also a problem with Christians in the church today...and it can carve a Grand Canyon through the pews.
In Bible class discussions, in conversations outside the church door, even in exchanges on the phone or Facebook...is God directing the thoughts that come through our mouths? Is God guiding our words and logic? Because it's so easy to speak without God. The world does it all the time! We're bombarded with Godless speech on a daily basis, but are we guilty of it too? It takes no effort to speak in the anonymity of the darkness...but it's harder to reflect the light of God into that darkness.
God's Word is like that "city set on a hill that cannot be hidden." (Matthew 5:14) Your opinion...my opinion is not what we're to set on that hill for all to see. We're to point to the city of God, not to ourselves. We're to be messengers to give direction and praise to the city, not to ourselves. Truth is not about you, and it's not about me...it's about God who gives it.
So, next time we open our mouths...is God there?
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