Monday, October 19, 2009

Well I have been telling people that I would update my blog for about two weeks now. Well I have done so. Bye. Just kidding.

Here lately I have been thinking alot about the conversations that we engage in. How many things do we say each day that have no significance? How many people do we gossip about in a single day? How many things that do we complain about? How many discouraging instead of encouraging words do we say to others? These questions have been going through my head alot here of late. I try to be very conscious of everything that I say, but sometimes that does not always happen. My pastor in his message yesterday, said something that I really liked and am going to try to make a habit of. Whenever we have a mean thought about somebody, instead of saying what our thought was to someone else, we need to say something nice about that person. Or whenever we start to complain about something, we need to say something positive instead. We need to have good things to say. Words are more deadly than anything. That saying "sticks and stones may break my bones but words can never hurt me" is not really true. Words can hurt you. Not to say that we should wear our feelings on our sleeves, and take offense to everything anybody says to us. We cannot control what everybody else says and does, but we can control what we ourselves say and do. I do not want anybody to say that I have hurt them with my words. I want to guard my tongue. If we are to be witnesses for the Lord, what we say is a big part of accomplishing that task of being a good Christian witness. I would hate for my words to hinder someone from accepting Christ as their Saviour. Also, every word that we say we will be held accountable for someday.

"Out of the same mouth proceedeth blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not so to be. Doth a fountain send forth at the same place sweet water and bitter? Can the fig tree, my brethren, bear olive berries? either a vine, figs? so can no fountain both yield salt water and fresh. Who is a wise man and endued with knowledge among you? let him shew out of a good conversation his works with meekness of wisdom. But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth. This wisdom descendeth not from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish. For where envying and strife is , there is confusion and every evil work. But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy. And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace of them that a make peace."
--James 3:10-18