Which is it time for... in those moments a decision needs to be made?
Time to be silent?
Or time to speak?
At the wrong time, each can be costly.
Words sent forth from places unfamiliar with truth and love....can wound, hurt and hinder.
Words held back never reveal, never shed light, never give birth nor have a chance to alter circumstances.
Ironically we rush to fill silence with that which serves no one but ourselves; never giving utterance to the words that might change the course of lives. How easily we wield the weapon of our tongue to assert ourselves and our opinions yet we shrink back in giving voice to words that might speak to something "not our problem, not our business," and so we're "not gonna get involved."
Heavenly Father,
Give us Your heart, so that with our mouth we can speak a word in season to the weary. May our speech be profitable to the hearer...and when it is not, may we remain silent. Put a guard over our lips LORD that serves to remind us that only one kind of water comes forth from Your well....Living; life-giving. We ask forgiveness, LORD, for the times when from our hearts our mouths have spoken that which dishonored others and You. Please help us to meditate on the things that are "pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report, if there is any virtue and if there is anything praiseworthy," so that out of this overflow of our hearts, our mouths can speak. May we "wait" before we say things difficult to take back and may we not hesitate to speak when it will encourage, lift, reveal to heal, justify, testify and give glory to You.
In Jesus' Name,
Amen
Ironically we rush to fill silence with that which serves no one but ourselves; never giving utterance to the words that might change the course of lives. How easily we wield the weapon of our tongue to assert ourselves and our opinions yet we shrink back in giving voice to words that might speak to something "not our problem, not our business," and so we're "not gonna get involved."
Heavenly Father,
Give us Your heart, so that with our mouth we can speak a word in season to the weary. May our speech be profitable to the hearer...and when it is not, may we remain silent. Put a guard over our lips LORD that serves to remind us that only one kind of water comes forth from Your well....Living; life-giving. We ask forgiveness, LORD, for the times when from our hearts our mouths have spoken that which dishonored others and You. Please help us to meditate on the things that are "pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report, if there is any virtue and if there is anything praiseworthy," so that out of this overflow of our hearts, our mouths can speak. May we "wait" before we say things difficult to take back and may we not hesitate to speak when it will encourage, lift, reveal to heal, justify, testify and give glory to You.
In Jesus' Name,
Amen
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