SPEAK

"With the tongue we praise our Lord and Father, and with it we curse men, who have been made in God's likeness. Out of the same mouth come praise and cursing. My brothers, this should not be."

Anybody else feel convicted here? Oh, so maybe you don't actually swear, but we do so often in so many other ways. The phrase 'we curse men, who have been made in God's likeness' makes me think of times when I have cut down someone else. I have spoken poorly of someone that God has made. We are all made in the likeness of our creator and yet we will speak praise to our creator and poorly about someone else. Seems like it goes along with gossip doesn't it?

"Who is wise and understanding among you? Let him show it by his good life, by deeds done in the humility that comes from wisdom" Humbling oursleves is all over the scripture. When we do things in our life that comes from a humble heart the results are so cool. Our mouths will sing praise to our creator and we will seek the interest of others rather than ourselves.

"For where you have envy and selfish ambition, there you find disorder and every evil practice."

I do not want to be in this category do you? The opposite of being humble is the above verse. Look where that gets us! May we all remember that our life here is not about us/you but about Jesus and him alone. May we look at everything we do and say toward others as if they were Jesus himself. And may we remember that the person sitting next to you at work or in the coffee shop may not even know that this Jesus loves them with a passion that we cannot even begin to comprehend. Lets tell about Jesus with a boldness like never before. Not your gift you may think? Well, it's not about you or me it's about Jesus. If we are to be his hands and his feet and if we are to be his mouthpiece we better be used to tell about what Jesus has done in our life. It's pretty great! Remember that Moses couldn't speak very well but God sent him to Pharoah anyway.

If we don't share it they may never hear it! It will mean we will have to go out of our comfort zone - WE CAN DO IT! When we do, look out!!!!!!!!:)