Chastise Your Words

Hand down, the month of July is the summer holiday month. Groups camps, religious socials, games, crafts, and get-away-vacations. Happiness abounds with every word said. Speeches about Jesus and God always become part of the joyfulness, and a desire to share the fountain of good faith always follows. Self-control must be the first consideration before trying to share the word of God to others.

 Remember to chastise yourself first! Watch out for religious words that hurt. Only God can take a person into His folds. No words on earth can save a person's soul, only Jesus can. Share the wisdom you obtained by a faithful walk, and select the words of God very closely.

Use caution! Consider another's point of view. If your point don't come across very well, you must study the bible more! Don't make up stuff to support your claim...that's vanity! You're simply making use of God. If a new believer appears bitter and confused, don't suggest offers of salvation. We have no control of the salvation's promise...that's falsehood!

Remember this verse from Isaiah...

Isaiah 5:19-21
They even mock God and say, "Hurry up and do something! We want to see what you can do. Let the Holy One of Israel carry out his plan, for we want to know what it is." 20. What sorrow for those who say that evil is good and good is evil, that dark is light and light is dark, that bitter is sweet and sweet is bitter. 21. What sorrow for those who are wise in their own eyes and think themselves so clever.
Sacrifice of time, salvation's promise, bound together? Sacrifices means sin. promises of salvation is the Lord's. Binding? Can we unbound what God has created? No.

Remember...choose the way to deliver your wisdom of God carefully. Don't promise, don't plead, and whatever you do do don't pledge your own wisdom for salvation's sake.

We are surrounded by evilness. Though we walk loving only the ways of God. It's from the passages of Jesus himself that wisdom is found. Cast my loose words to hell, I'll pray for it to surrender to Your will, Oh Lord. Find me a friend that has the same heart as we have for You. Amen.
.... So that, if a man only abstains from doing evil in order to avoid punishment, Non pasces in cruce corvos, [Thou shalt not be hanged.], saith the Pagan; there, "thou hast thy reward." But even he will not allow such a harmless man as this to be so much as a good heathen. If, then, any man, from the same motive, viz., to avoid punishment, to avoid the loss of his friends, or his gain, or his reputation, should not only abstain from doing evil, but also do ever so much good; yea, and use all the means of grace; yet we could not with any propriety say, this man is even almost a Christian. If he has no better principle in his heart, he is only a hypocrite altogether.
- Dr. John Wesley

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