Stuart Greaves our new director teaches our Sunday night classes. These have truly become my favourite! This man is so humble however so knowledgable and bold. This Sunday he let us do two hours of question and answer. I love it when he does this! He lets us ask our weak questions and he speaks life and truth into our weakness. One of the things he mentioned was that the leaders never spoke about us negatively unless it was carefully sifted through and brought to Christ first. For some reason the Lord took that phrase and convicted me on it.
How often do we as Christian's gossip inside of our heads. Now let me break this down. I personally got convicted of gossiping with my friends when I was in primary school. Clearly not my problem anymore right? WRONG! What if Jesus told you that unless our thoughts were aligned with His in speaking of His children it's gossip. I mean think about it. How different is it if we speak it silently in our minds or out loud. Jesus hears it all. Sure, maybe I just am walking in 'holy' anger that the girl in the row in front of me is dressed so immodestly and clearly has no idea of her identity in Christ seeing as who her new boyfriend is. Do you have any idea how much that hurts God's heart? He would never think nevertheless say such! I want to think only what Christ thinks. How different do you think our minds would be? Looking upon what is good, true and beautiful in His children instead of the weakness. If at every moment of the day God was pointing out my weakness I would be so depressed! However He chooses to continually tell me how precious I am, how expensive I am and how valuable I am. I need to start thinking of other people in this way as well. I will mark it as my sin if I think of one of His children negatively unless He alone approves of me praying it through. That way what I think will be nearer to what Christ thinks, this in turn will come out of my mouth. That way what comes forth in my speech will edify His church and that alone. Amen!
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