“True instruction was in his mouth, and unrighteousness was not found on his lips; he walked with Me in peace and uprightness, and he turned many back from iniquity” (Mal. 2:6).
Four characteristics distinguish Christians from mere worldlings. Their mouths are filled with the law of God’s truth. Though they do stand upon the word of God, they are more appropriately defined as standing under the word of God.
Unrighteousness is not found on their lips because they know that their vocabulary identifies their Lord. Christians are graceful in their speech because their Lord Christ is graceful. They are committed to letting their speech always be with grace, seasoned, as it were, with salt, so that they may know how they should respond to each person (Col. 4:6).
Christians walk with their God in peace and uprightness. Their lives are conducted pursuant to God’s law. They are averse to every perversion of truth because untruth disrupts peace. They conduct themselves with wisdom toward unbelievers, making the most of every opportunity (Col. 4:5).
The upright set their hearts to study the law of the Lord, to practice it and to teach His statutes and ordinances to His people (Ezra 7:10). Their hearts are so affixed to eternal matters that they know a constancy of close communion with the Lord through His Spirit (Gen. 5:22). They are going to reach the Promised Land through God’s grace enabling them to be upright in all matters.
How many Christians do you know who are willing to become so involved in the lives of God’s children that they turn others back from iniquity? Do you do this? The western culture appears to continue deproving from an immoral society to an amoral society. God’s people must not be contributors to this darkness (Dan. 12:3). You speak for the One with whom you walk, the One with whom you talk, the One who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light.
God will not validate what man violates. He will not wink at sin. His ambassadors turn many back from the ways of the world because He has commanded them to so act and become contributors to right cultures.
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