Every word is a promise.
By Gods Word he spoke the world into creation.
And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light. (Genesis 1:3)
By his word Isaac blessed the wrong child.
Isaac answered Esau, “I have made him lord over you and have made all his relatives his servants, and I have sustained him with grain and new wine. So what can I possibly do for you, my son?” (Genesis 27:37)
By His Word, Jesus forgave us as he hung on the cross.
Jesus said, “Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing...” (Luke 23:34)
Every word we speak is a promise. There is no need to take an oath or pinky swear. There is no volume by which to measure a promise. “I will take the trash out at the next commercial” should have the same weight as “I will marry you next fall.” The very essence of my being should be truth, so that there is never any doubt that what I say I will do.
This post is a prompt from Five Minute Friday and was written in approximately five minutes. For more information, visit fiveminutefriday.com.
Friday, May 17, 2019
Friday, May 10, 2019
FMF: Practice
I’ve been “practicing” this blog post over and over in my head all day. I’ve written and rewritten the words that I wanted to type but instead of actually doing it, they’ve gone undone and have been lost into space. So many things in my life get “practiced” for no reason:
There are the words that I wish I had said after I had a fight with someone.
There are the things that I should’ve done to improve a situation that I was facing.
There are the ways that I intend to act when I get somewhere important.
There is the way I’m going to look when I finally lose those next few pounds.
In all of this “practice” I am spending energy and effort on things that don’t matter. I am not preparing. I am not rehearsing. I am wasting. And so could it be that this supposed “practice” is really something evil disguised as something important. Could it be a wolf in sheep‘s clothing waiting to attack me, from the inside, from my own very thoughts?
This could be why we are instructed in Philippians to think about good things. To think about things that are noble. To think about things that are trustworthy. This is why we are told in 2 Corinthians to take our thoughts and make them captive. And it is why the real practice is eliminating these “practices” and instead focusing on Christ.
This post is a prompt from Five Minute Friday and was written in approximately five minutes. For more information, visit fiveminutefriday.com.
There are the words that I wish I had said after I had a fight with someone.
There are the things that I should’ve done to improve a situation that I was facing.
There are the ways that I intend to act when I get somewhere important.
There is the way I’m going to look when I finally lose those next few pounds.
In all of this “practice” I am spending energy and effort on things that don’t matter. I am not preparing. I am not rehearsing. I am wasting. And so could it be that this supposed “practice” is really something evil disguised as something important. Could it be a wolf in sheep‘s clothing waiting to attack me, from the inside, from my own very thoughts?
This could be why we are instructed in Philippians to think about good things. To think about things that are noble. To think about things that are trustworthy. This is why we are told in 2 Corinthians to take our thoughts and make them captive. And it is why the real practice is eliminating these “practices” and instead focusing on Christ.
This post is a prompt from Five Minute Friday and was written in approximately five minutes. For more information, visit fiveminutefriday.com.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)