what i meant to say was...
do you ever say something in a conversation with someone and then, minutes/hours/days later, the words still haunt you?
it may not have been anything bad, per se, just not exactly what you were trying to convey. maybe the message you were attempting to get across got a little jumbled in translation. or, maybe you spoke quickly and the words weren't as delicate as you would have liked. maybe you were trying to be funny and the words were just, you know, there. maybe it was just plain dumb, unnecessary, and didn't benefit a single person within earshot.
well, i have done all of the above. and, i tell ya, it gets me. i will replay the conversations in my head for days and feel bad/frustrated/silly/dumb all over again. sometimes we are afforded the opportunity to rectify the mispoken words and explain our intent, but oftentimes, nothing is done, the words are eventually forgotten (or so you hope), and life goes on.
it still gets me.
"The mouth of the righteous man utters wisdom, and his tongue speaks what is just." Psalms 37:30
"She (the wife of noble character) opens her mouth with wisdom, and the teaching of kindness is on her tongue." Proverbs 31:26
"Let no corrupting talk come out of your mouths, but only such as is good for building up, as fits the occasion, that it may give grace to those who hear." Ephesians 4:29
"Set a guard, O Lord, over my mouth; keep watch over the door of my lips." Psalm 141:3
i won't say that this area of life is a resolution or goal for the new year (still praying through those), but i will say that this is an area of my life where i need discipline and i pray that, through God's grace, i will end this year with more wisdom, kindness, justice, edification, and grace coming from these lips than i do today.
it may not have been anything bad, per se, just not exactly what you were trying to convey. maybe the message you were attempting to get across got a little jumbled in translation. or, maybe you spoke quickly and the words weren't as delicate as you would have liked. maybe you were trying to be funny and the words were just, you know, there. maybe it was just plain dumb, unnecessary, and didn't benefit a single person within earshot.
well, i have done all of the above. and, i tell ya, it gets me. i will replay the conversations in my head for days and feel bad/frustrated/silly/dumb all over again. sometimes we are afforded the opportunity to rectify the mispoken words and explain our intent, but oftentimes, nothing is done, the words are eventually forgotten (or so you hope), and life goes on.
it still gets me.
"The mouth of the righteous man utters wisdom, and his tongue speaks what is just." Psalms 37:30
"She (the wife of noble character) opens her mouth with wisdom, and the teaching of kindness is on her tongue." Proverbs 31:26
"Let no corrupting talk come out of your mouths, but only such as is good for building up, as fits the occasion, that it may give grace to those who hear." Ephesians 4:29
"Set a guard, O Lord, over my mouth; keep watch over the door of my lips." Psalm 141:3
i won't say that this area of life is a resolution or goal for the new year (still praying through those), but i will say that this is an area of my life where i need discipline and i pray that, through God's grace, i will end this year with more wisdom, kindness, justice, edification, and grace coming from these lips than i do today.
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