Eph 4:29
Day 8. Out.
I guess this is part two of what I was really trying to say with my last post.. not only does it take energy to put those words out there, but it had to come from somewhere, didn't it? It came from it's first location, right? Those words came out of my mouth for everyone to hear. Hmmm.. if those words came out of me, then they must have originated from within me, right?
James tells me that the tongue is an evil that no man can conquer, that from the same mouth blessings and cursings come. The tongue is a small rudder that steers the whole ship. I think that this is true.. but is the tongue just not an instrument of the whole body? If the body is good, then the tongue will not be bad. Does this not make sense? If the body is evil, then the tongue will be evil. I think that in both cases, the tongue will be the final decider. Whether or not to let those words out is the turning point. If that can be stopped, then maybe the thought of the words, the forming of them in the mind, can also be stopped.
Back on subject, sorry. The words must be born somewhere, and apparently it is not out there, but in here: <3 <--- This.. though really small, is supposed to be a heart. In reality, it's just a beginning "carrot" and a three. If this is evil, that's where the words come from! If this is pure, then blessings come from here. How is it pure? Maybe if we surround the heart with Christ? Pretend for second that our Lord and Savior can be represented as parenthesis: (<3) But now is not the heart just surround and the evil just bottled up? What good is that?
Here is the good: The surrounding of the heart with Christ will eventually break the heart: (
And look! thanks to our fancy "Zoom-In Bubble" we can also see something else.. it's your heart! Ok, I know that this is a crude drawing of the actuality of the process, but the one point can still be seen:
His heart is bigger than your own will ever be.
Your words come from somewhere. They come out of something. Are they coming out of your heart, filled with sin? Or are they coming from Christ's heart, who's beating (both the beating of His actual heart and the beating He took called crucifiction) saves us all? Think about it.
I guess this is part two of what I was really trying to say with my last post.. not only does it take energy to put those words out there, but it had to come from somewhere, didn't it? It came from it's first location, right? Those words came out of my mouth for everyone to hear. Hmmm.. if those words came out of me, then they must have originated from within me, right?
James tells me that the tongue is an evil that no man can conquer, that from the same mouth blessings and cursings come. The tongue is a small rudder that steers the whole ship. I think that this is true.. but is the tongue just not an instrument of the whole body? If the body is good, then the tongue will not be bad. Does this not make sense? If the body is evil, then the tongue will be evil. I think that in both cases, the tongue will be the final decider. Whether or not to let those words out is the turning point. If that can be stopped, then maybe the thought of the words, the forming of them in the mind, can also be stopped.
Back on subject, sorry. The words must be born somewhere, and apparently it is not out there, but in here: <3 <--- This.. though really small, is supposed to be a heart. In reality, it's just a beginning "carrot" and a three. If this is evil, that's where the words come from! If this is pure, then blessings come from here. How is it pure? Maybe if we surround the heart with Christ? Pretend for second that our Lord and Savior can be represented as parenthesis: (<3) But now is not the heart just surround and the evil just bottled up? What good is that?
Here is the good: The surrounding of the heart with Christ will eventually break the heart: (
And look! thanks to our fancy "Zoom-In Bubble" we can also see something else.. it's your heart! Ok, I know that this is a crude drawing of the actuality of the process, but the one point can still be seen:
His heart is bigger than your own will ever be.
Your words come from somewhere. They come out of something. Are they coming out of your heart, filled with sin? Or are they coming from Christ's heart, who's beating (both the beating of His actual heart and the beating He took called crucifiction) saves us all? Think about it.