Making the most of it

Colossians 4: 5-6

 

⁵Be wise in the way you act toward outsiders; make the most of every opportunity. ⁶Let your conversation be always full of grace, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how to answer everyone.

 

I heard a statement this weekend that caught me off guard. “Do you know the number one cause of people turning to Atheism? Christians!” I found that statement offensive at first, until I thought on it a little while. I think Paul would have understood that statement as soon as it was spoken. In this passage he is urging the Colossians to make the most of every opportunity when it comes to outsiders, but many of us do not do that do we? Many of us use the opportunity to show off our knowledge, or spout lengthy lists of do’s and don’ts. Worse than that some talk a good game yet go out and do the exact opposite. When you think about it, you can see how someone new to the faith would see these actions as deterrents. Could you imagine believing in a God that loves, that is accepting, yet its members are anything but! We should all take a step back and look at ourselves from time to time. Look with the eyes of someone with no knowledge of the Lord. Are we making the most of each opportunity? Are we spreading the Love that the Lord shows us? Or are we busy making Atheists out of the lost?

 

 

Peace,

Brian