Google, Firefox, Stumbleupon, Digg

What do all these things have in common? Searching, browsing, stumbling and digging are all ways to communicate with others and to share in other people's thoughts, dreams, ambitions, problems, and fears. In the internet age we have become accustomed to MySpace, Facebook and other social sites that offer what the phone and post office did for past generations. We can stay in touch, meet new people, discuss, debate, and share information with people we otherwise would never have met. It truly is a small world. I can remember the first time I sent an email and chatted with someone from another country. We take those things for granted now, but I wonder if we remember that the people we are talking to are actually real people with real fealings? The Bible says in Colossians 4:6 "Let your speech be alway with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man." One commentator put it this way, "Let all your conversation be such as may tend to exemplify and recommend Christianity."
I must confess that my conversation, at times, lacks this component. Can everything I say, even the things I type recommend Christianity? Should it? I believe it should. Christians should be ever watchful of how they act in public, but most of us have a tendency to disregard the online public. I have learned that typed words don't exactly come across the way spoken words do, so we must not be careless. "A harsh method of proposing or defending the doctrines of Christianity only serves to repel men from those doctrines, and from the way of salvation." Truer words have not been uttered.
The next time we have a conversation, in person or online, let's remember to have a little grace and season it up with knowledge! May God bless you richly my friend.