To Love, Live, Learn, and Lauch
There is a difference between swallowing your words and sparing your words.
Swallowing your words happens after you say the words. Sparing your words happens before they come out.
Even a fool look’s wise in his silence. Looking in Prov 17:27-28
He that hath knowledge spareth his words: and a man of understanding is of an excellent spirit.
In Jas 1:19, we are told to be swift to hear, slow to speak.
In wisdom: Spare Your Words.
“I love it when a plan comes together.” – John “Hannibal” Smith in The A-Team
In Prov 16:3:
Commit thy works unto the LORD, and thy thoughts shall be established.
God’s plans always come together in God’s appointed time. When we commit the things we do and the things we think about, they are more likely to come together.
I’m not suggesting we get what we want when we do so. Rather, we begin to want what God wants when we commit our thoughts and doings to Him. By doing so, these things come to pass.
I love it when a plan comes together. And God’s plans always come together.
Also see: Psa 37:5; Phl 4:6-7; Col 3:23; 1Pe 5:7
There seems to be a trendy topic about Resting Bad Face or something like that. It’s what your relaxed-like-no-one-is-watching face shows. And sometimes, it’s not a cheerful face.
Does your resting face turn downward in a frown? Is your countenance in a cowering slope at your lips or brow?
Rather than checking your face, maybe you should check your heart
Prov 15:13 A merry heart maketh a cheerful countenance: but by sorrow of the heart the spirit is broken.
Our face reveals what’s in our heart. Is your heart merry?
I once heard someone say, “If there’s a Godly battle, I want to be in the middle of it – because that’s where God will be.”
Awhile back, we had a hard work before us. Through patience, perseverance, and prayer, we believe in our heart the work was profitable for sake of Christ. It was a Kingdom work. It was hard work. It was messy work. And it was profitable work.
Prov 14:4 Where no oxen are, the crib is clean: but much increase is by the strength of the ox.
Sometimes, there will be messy work. If there is never a messy work, is it really a work? I’m not suggesting you should ever leave the mess. Every day brings its own mess. At the end of the day, we clean the mess of the day. Tomorrow could bring a different mess.
Messy doesn’t necessarily mean bad. Hard doesn’t necessarily mean terrible. To never have a mess, one could wonder is there a progress or profit in the work.