When do our frustrated feelings become sin? When we act on them and speak them out loud.
Prov. 21:23- "Watch your tongue and keep your mouth shut and you will stay out of trouble."
Words are never really idle. They either contribute to the building up or the tearing down.
When we speak carelessly, not bring in control and consciously deciding what we're putting out into the world, the words appear idle-pointless-harmless-lacking purpose-just "venting".
Prov. 29:11- "Fools VENT their anger but the wise quietly hold it back."
Do I really pay that much attention to what I let fly? Do I EVER really decide what to say?
James 3:2- "Indeed we all make many mistakes. For, if we could control our tongues, we would be perfect and could also control ourselves in every other way."
I want self-control. The seed for it is already planted in me, I just gave to help it grow.
I need to stop YEARNing for it.
Instead I need to LEARN how to be that way.
And God gives me LOTS of opportunities to practice.
It's hard.
It hurts to be confronted with your weaknesses.
But the work is good.
Getting things easily will never make us into the women God is calling us to be.
Have been thinking lately about how my words effect my kids. Also, trying to teach Haydn how his words effect him.
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