Actions Speak Louder Than Words

Actions Speak Louder Than Words

word2By Malita WamalaYou, The Observer (Kampala)
may be good at the talk but not to be counted on when it comes to walking your talk. Yet in salvation, God expects us to all preach His word, but nothing preaches the Gospel like our actions.

What a preacher says at the pulpit may not have as much impact as what that preacher does away from the pulpit, which piles immense pressure on ministers of God.

In a gym locker room recently, for example, the ladies were discussing the ‘epidemic’ called spouse battering and a conversation came up about a pastor who regularly beats his wife in one of the affluent Kampala suburbs.

One of the ladies, his neighbour, said one day after getting tired of his scandalous behaviour that often spills beyond his gates, she walked over as he was in the middle of his rage and told him, “Praise God!”

For a while the lights seemed to come back on in his head and his way of explaining was: “It was her fault.”

Then there is a street preacher in Mulago and Wandegeya, who one man saw and could not believe she was actually born-again.

“That woman is my neighbour and she really mistreats her husband. She yells at him, belittles him as we all hear and sometimes is even violent,” he said. And there she was, passionately waving her Bible and witnessing for God, when back home her closest neighbours were convinced she worshipped the devil.

Be careful what you preach with your mouth and what you practice later. Your deeds preach louder than anything you could ever say.

In fact, my friend remembers her early days in salvation how she almost backslid because a minister she looked up to one day turned up at church visibly pregnant yet she was not married or even known to be in courtship.

We think of these things as “my business” or “between me and my God” which is correct, but if you take a moment and think of the wider impact your actions could have, you just may reconsider.

What you say/do and how you say/do it can cause others to stumble or even fall, and the Bible says do not cause others to stumble (Romans 14:13-23).

Whatever we do, it helps to stop and ask ourselves, is this true witnessing for Christ? Not just when it suits us, but all the time. It is a constant struggle but one that is doable with God’s grace and our determination to change.

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