Recovery Christian Center Daily Meditation - 5/4/12 - You are what you say.
"Indeed, we all make many mistakes. For if we could control our tongues, we would be perfect and could also control ourselves in every other way. We can make a large horse go wherever we want by means of a small bit in its mouth. And a small rudder makes a huge ship turn wherever the pilot chooses to go, even though the winds are strong. In the same way, the tongue is a small thing that makes grand speeches. But a tiny spark can set a great forest on fire. And the tongue is a flame of fire. It is a whole world of wickedness, corrupting your entire body. It can set your whole life on fire, for it is set on fire by hell itself." James 3:2-6 NLT
On the train the other day a woman was overheard telling her husband, "I would have rather you slapped me that say what you just said to me." Her feelings prove that sometimes we cause much more harm with words than actions. An article in Psychology Today from some years ago stated that it took 10 positive things to counteract one negative one. All we need to do is look at the recent cases of cyber bullying that led to the suicide of some teenagers to see the overwhelming harm our tongues can cause. Speech has the power to kill or heal, and as Christ centered recovering people it is our responsibility to speak with His love. No healing comes from bashing or abusing or hating on anyone. Besides we, who God has brought out of the hell on earth that we had made of our lives and delivered from the real Hell we deserved, cannot afford to judge anybody. Even when we feel convicted to correct someone, we need not to tear them out the frame in order to do it. Correction is supposed to be loving as well. We are pointing out a mistake, not trying to make them feel like failures. We are what say, so show the world we are love by treating others with His loving kindness.
"Indeed, we all make many mistakes. For if we could control our tongues, we would be perfect and could also control ourselves in every other way. We can make a large horse go wherever we want by means of a small bit in its mouth. And a small rudder makes a huge ship turn wherever the pilot chooses to go, even though the winds are strong. In the same way, the tongue is a small thing that makes grand speeches. But a tiny spark can set a great forest on fire. And the tongue is a flame of fire. It is a whole world of wickedness, corrupting your entire body. It can set your whole life on fire, for it is set on fire by hell itself." James 3:2-6 NLT
On the train the other day a woman was overheard telling her husband, "I would have rather you slapped me that say what you just said to me." Her feelings prove that sometimes we cause much more harm with words than actions. An article in Psychology Today from some years ago stated that it took 10 positive things to counteract one negative one. All we need to do is look at the recent cases of cyber bullying that led to the suicide of some teenagers to see the overwhelming harm our tongues can cause. Speech has the power to kill or heal, and as Christ centered recovering people it is our responsibility to speak with His love. No healing comes from bashing or abusing or hating on anyone. Besides we, who God has brought out of the hell on earth that we had made of our lives and delivered from the real Hell we deserved, cannot afford to judge anybody. Even when we feel convicted to correct someone, we need not to tear them out the frame in order to do it. Correction is supposed to be loving as well. We are pointing out a mistake, not trying to make them feel like failures. We are what say, so show the world we are love by treating others with His loving kindness.
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