Speak Out

Meditations on

Staying In the Grace for Today 

August 27, 2025

Speak Out

So we tell others about Christ, warning everyone and teaching everyone with all the wisdom God has given us. We want to present them to God, perfect in their relationship to Christ. That’s why I work and struggle so hard, depending on Christ’s mighty power that works within me.

Colossians 1:28-29 

“Has the Lord redeemed you? Then speak out!” (Psalm 107:2) You may be more familiar with this verse rendered as, “Let the redeemed of the Lord say so,” but I really like the NLT’s translation as it makes the statement clearly an imperative as I believe the author of the psalm intended.

Speaking out was exactly what Paul gave his life to after encountering his redemption on the road to Damascus. (Acts 9) Two points caught my attention as I read today’s passage. First, when Paul wrote of his desire to present people to God, perfect in their relationship to Christ, he was not the one making them perfect. God had already done that when they confessed their sins and their faith in Christ Jesus. Paul was just presenting to God his newly redeemed children.

Secondly, it was real work for Paul to give his time and energy to the task of speaking out about God’s redeeming us through faith in Christ. And Paul was able to give himself to this work because of Christ’s mighty power that was working within him.

My Takeaway: Christ has redeemed us and calls us to speak out! Like Paul, we can depend on Christ’s mighty power that is working within us to fulfill our assignment.

Sē’lah

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(Selah is a word that appears in the Book of Psalms that I often use as the Complimentary Closing in my correspondence. Its meaning, as I use the word, is to pause and think about these things.)

 

These meditations are written by Alex M. Knight as he seeks the life in Christ as his way of life.  The meditations are published on the BLOG, http://seekingthelifeinchrist.blogspot.com/ and they are also distributed on the Constant Contact email server. You may subscribe to this email service by sending an email to: amkrom812@gmail.com.

 

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