"May the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be pleasing in your sight, O LORD, my Rock and my Redeemer." Psalm 19:14
I have been meditating on this verse over the past few weeks and let me tell you it has not been easy. Words can hurt people so much.
They pierce the heart.
They can affect your witness.
They can affect people around you.
They can affect your personal relationship with Christ.
"The good man brings good things out of the good stored up in his heart, and the evil man brings evil things out of the evil stored up in his heart. For out of the overflow of his heart his mouth speaks." Luke 6:45
The Lord has been refining me. He has been teaching me and he has been challenging things in my life. There have been several instances this week where I have failed. I was not lifting up people with my words. But I praise the Lord that the second I said something hurtful or wrong He convicted me of it. What is even a bigger praise I sucked up my pride and apologized.
That is huge. First of all recognizing it but then considering others better than myself and apologizing for it. This is an area in my life that the Lord will continue to work on me in my life. As my mom has told me "it is not what I say but how I say it." I don't want that to be the case.
I want to be a woman who builds up people. Not destroy. Psalm 14:1-3 says "The wise woman builds her house, but with her own hands the foolish one tears hers down.2He whose walk is upright fears the LORD, but he whose ways are devious despises him.3 A fool's talk brings a rod to his back, but the lips of the wise protect them."
I want the cycle of being careless with words to stop with me. I don't want my sin to affect those that are close to me. I don't want my words to hurt others.
They pierce the heart.
They can affect your witness.
They can affect people around you.
They can affect your personal relationship with Christ.
"The good man brings good things out of the good stored up in his heart, and the evil man brings evil things out of the evil stored up in his heart. For out of the overflow of his heart his mouth speaks." Luke 6:45
The Lord has been refining me. He has been teaching me and he has been challenging things in my life. There have been several instances this week where I have failed. I was not lifting up people with my words. But I praise the Lord that the second I said something hurtful or wrong He convicted me of it. What is even a bigger praise I sucked up my pride and apologized.
That is huge. First of all recognizing it but then considering others better than myself and apologizing for it. This is an area in my life that the Lord will continue to work on me in my life. As my mom has told me "it is not what I say but how I say it." I don't want that to be the case.
I want to be a woman who builds up people. Not destroy. Psalm 14:1-3 says "The wise woman builds her house, but with her own hands the foolish one tears hers down.2He whose walk is upright fears the LORD, but he whose ways are devious despises him.3 A fool's talk brings a rod to his back, but the lips of the wise protect them."
I want the cycle of being careless with words to stop with me. I don't want my sin to affect those that are close to me. I don't want my words to hurt others.
Then this weekend at church Allen talked about Philippians 2 and what really spoke to me was verse 14. You ready for this? "Do all things without grumbling or questioning."
Ugh... i fail again.
Do ALL things.
Not just some things.
You can't complain about headaches, you cant complain about dishes, or laundry that is piled up.
We are to not complain about ANYTHING. Now if thats not convicting I don't know what is.
I realized how much I complain. This is NOT ok. We are commanded to not complain. It is not a suggestion. There are no loopholes. You cant work around the system.
Our words are so important. What comes out of our mouth should be of the Lord. So that means no complaining, no coarse joking, we are to be edifying. We are to be listening to the Lord and patiently waiting for what He has to say.
I will continue to ask to Lord to show me and to help my words be pleasing to him!
Just some food for thought!
2 comments:
So beautiful. I love how you are letting Him grow you and that He is so gracious and gentle with you. I also love that you are sucking up your pride when it comes to making things right. That will prevent the feelings of condemnation and prevent the enemy from allowing you to walk in victory!!
We have been really going over 'out of the overflow of the heart the mouth speaks' and what that means and asking Jesus to give us a happy heart so that we will think/speak kind words.
Thank you for sharing.
Love you.
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