Read:
Ephesians 5:15-16

As an introvert, the last few months have been amusing. As if in a dystopian novel, one day we simply shut it all down, with most working from home, and we are told orders and information through the TV. Personally, I had a secret dream to work and school from home, and not have all the things that keep us busy, keeping us busy. Then it happened.

No matter how you feel about the quarantine, we all have the common background now of being through something that generations before us hadn’t. That should unite us.

Despite the things we now have in common, many Christ followers have held stronger and become more vocal about the things which divide us. In a time when we need each other more, many have used social media to speak in ways that inflict pain and degrade others. We have had the time to work on redeeming our lives for him, and instead, the opposite spills out of us in the public sphere.

In Ephesians 5, Paul deals with the wisdom of how Christ followers should live. Even in the 1st century, he tells us “the days are evil.” I would suggest that 2020, with “murder hornets,” global pandemic, no sports, political friction, racial division, earthquakes, volcanos, and bushfire… the days are indeed evil.

Should we as Christ followers then be working harder to be even more wise, even more slow to speak, and more cautiously weighing our words?

Question:
What guardrails, standards, or personal policies can you put into place as God is working on you, so that you “live wiser?” Who is one person you may not see eye to eye with that you can edify and encourage by calling, texting, or messaging them today?

Ben Eash
Director of Communication