Cleaning Up Our Mouths (3)
Step Three: Hope
Some of us may hear our speech patterns and despair that we can ever clean them up. Don't.
Just because we may be far removed from where God wants us to be does not mean that we cannot get there from here; it only means that we have a long way to go.
In all my years I've never figured out a way to get from anywhere to any other where except to take a first step. The fact that there is a long way to go need not deter us from going. Let's move!
Start today: pray that God gives you awareness of when you're about to sin with your mouth or just have. Ask Him for grace to have a vigilant mind. This will help you to have one victory here; another there. One good word choice to restrain or change the tongue will lead to another. And while you may never get to perfection, you'll sure make progress.
If you curse or use profanity one less time than you did yesterday, that's one less sin. And be sure of this: that's growth; growth that will lead to more.
Have hope in the power of grace!
Some of us may hear our speech patterns and despair that we can ever clean them up. Don't.
Just because we may be far removed from where God wants us to be does not mean that we cannot get there from here; it only means that we have a long way to go.
In all my years I've never figured out a way to get from anywhere to any other where except to take a first step. The fact that there is a long way to go need not deter us from going. Let's move!
Start today: pray that God gives you awareness of when you're about to sin with your mouth or just have. Ask Him for grace to have a vigilant mind. This will help you to have one victory here; another there. One good word choice to restrain or change the tongue will lead to another. And while you may never get to perfection, you'll sure make progress.
If you curse or use profanity one less time than you did yesterday, that's one less sin. And be sure of this: that's growth; growth that will lead to more.
Have hope in the power of grace!
Labels: Sanctification, speech, tongue
posted by Tim Shorey at
6:00 AM
1 Comments:
Thanks for the reminder Tim. What a blessed hope it is that our Lord has every intention of sanctifing His bride. He will do it one way or the other. Seeing progress in this area gives us "the evidence of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen". I find it hard to neglet these most helpful blogs, both yous and Gaylines. Very profitable to my soul. To bad more don't read regularly.
Thankfully,
JR
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