What Is Coming Out Of Your Mouth?

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 (King James Version)

What comes out of your mouth? Your speech, does it reflect your claims of a relationship with God? Sometimes, well more often than not, it's difficult to tell who is and who isn't a Christian by the way they talk. Churches are full of gossip. Dirty jokes are told as often in the house of God as in the local bar. The way you speak reflects who you really are. Does your speech reflect the relationship you have with God through Jesus? Or, does it reveal that you really are not who you claim to be?

We read this, in Ephesians 4:29, "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." What does Paul mean by "corrupt communication?" Well, look back to verse 25, "Wherefore putting away lying, speak every man truth with his neighbor: for we are members one of another." Lying to one another would be corrupt communication. We must speak the truth. Our nation suffers from the "little white lie." That's a false notion that telling a lie to save someone from embarrassment, or humiliation is all right. Others call it a harmless lie. Friends, there is no harmless lie. It's all wrong, it's all corrupt, it isn't the truth. Our speech should be the truth. Our speech should build others up, that is shows God to others. 

What is coming out of your mouth, today? Speech that helps others? Or speech that is corrupt? Think About It.