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Sunday, September
27, 2009
Be More Ready To Hear
Ecclesiastes 5:2 Be not rash with thy
mouth, and let not thine heart be hasty to utter any thing before God: for
God is in heaven, and thou upon earth: therefore let thy words be few. (KJV)
Ecclesiastes 5:1-3
(4.) It is not enough that what we say
comes from the heart, but it must come from a composed heart, and not from
a sudden heat or passion. As the mouth must not be rash, so the heart must
not be hasty; we must not only think, but think twice, before we speak,
when we are to speak either from God in preaching or to God in prayer, and
not utter any thing indecent and undigested, 1 Cor 14:15. (from Matthew
Henry's Commentary)
We must be swift to hear and slow to
speak so that the words that come forth from our heart and mouth will not
be those of ourselves but of our Father’s words of life and truth.
The words that He speaks unto us are
Spirit and they are life, and in them death is swallowed up in victory;
this is what should be coming forth from our heart and into our life
bringing joy, peace, and the liberty to serve and worship our Father in
Spirit and in truth in Christ.
Don’t be foolish and unlearned; but learn
to walk in the wisdom from above where Christ is seated on the right hand
of God; be ready and willing to listen to His guidance and counsel in and
through all things; trust with all thy heart being of a sound mind (the
mind of Christ) so as not to utter foolishness. And last, don’t be afraid
and be of a faint heart; be strong in the Lord and in the power of His
might letting your words be few to utter anything that would alter your
course home to Him.
Today, be more ready to hear than to give
the sacrifice of fools.
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