matthew 15: 11 It’s not what goes into your mouth that defiles you; you are defiled by the words that come out of your mouth.”
I was looking for the scripture that states out of the same mouth come blessing and curse...
the issue... I say things.. and at the time.. they seem silly or not a big deal... then later.. it occurs to me that someone else might take it completely different...
I have tried VERY hard to not allow myself to get caught up in lies and gossip... yet occasionally... somehow I still get drawn into wrong conversations...
my mouth is the very thing that God has gifted me in... I have the gift of prophecy.. so I use this same mouth to give people insight that God gives me into their lives... the same mouth that I say the things that may have hurt someone's feelings... or made someone imagine I was talking negatively about them... and maybe.. with this same mouth that speaks God's insight... I also speak hurt... and it is not my intention... yet it is the truth...
this weekend I was involved in an AWESOME women's summit... and I come home.. and I make a stupid silly comment that could have been taken wrong.. by someone very special to me... and her feelings could have been hurt... like I said more than I should have... and it really wasn't even like it sounded in the comment... but you can't take words back.. once they're out there.. they are just dead weight...
so what is the reason for this? I guess the enemy attacks me in the way that God uses me.. trying to make my words not valid.. to make people unwilling to hear me... because of the other comments...
what is the solution? I obviously have to be far more serious about what it is that comes out of my mouth... can I be forgiven by man by the mean or rude things I have been known to say? I am guessing that God will find a way because it is in me speaking out His thoughts to people that I am to be used...
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