Ephesians 4:29 -- On Communication and Edification

"Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers."
Ephesians 4:29


I like the idea of not letting anything impure or corrupt make it out of your mouth.  Working on not thinking that way in the first place is of course also important, but purifying ourselves completely might take longer.  Not saying the critical, cruel, or in other ways corrupt, things that we think can start now, and is an important start on the process, because it forces us to think about what we are saying and how it could affect others.

Some people might call it censorship, or insist on freedom of speech, but I'm not talking about any government-mandated limitation or law.  Only about the way that we individually choose to affect the world.  God asks us to edify others, or in other words to make the world better, and if we only speak things that will make that happen--uplift and help--then we will be better, and the world around us will be better.

Today let's think about the things that we are saying and how we might be affecting others, and let's do better.