This pretty much sums it up for this morning...He plainly tells us to get off our high horse...Quit judging others ...for the one that has no sin ..let them cast the first stone...Oh if we could only take this advice and live it according to God's Word..So much slander and blaming someone else for all the unhappiness and storms of life. One of the things my Mama said over and over ...If you can not think of anything good, productive, encouraging, edifying, to say, then simply don't say anything!!! Man talk about controlling the most powerful little thing we own...THE TONGUE...Such a small thing that so many times gives life or destroys it....Oh Father in Heaven discipline my tongue at all times..Let it speak LIFE, ENCOURAGEMENT, AND PRAISE....if it does not have these things on the tip of it ...let it be still and not speak anything....In Jesus Name....from Galations 4 and 5...GOD'S WORDS.... It is absolutely clear that God has called you to a free life. Just make sure that you don't use this freedom as an excuse to do whatever you want to do and destroy your freedom. Rather, use your freedom to serve one another in love; that's how freedom grows. 14 For everything we know about God's Word is summed up in a single sentence: Love others as you love yourself. That's an act of true freedom. 15 If you bite and ravage each other, watch out - in no time at all you will be annihilating each other, and where will your precious freedom be then? 16 My counsel is this: Live freely, animated and motivated by God's Spirit. Then you won't feed the compulsions of selfishness (Live creatively, friends. If someone falls into sin, forgivingly restore him, saving your critical comments for yourself. You might be needing forgiveness before the day's out. 2 Stoop down and reach out to those who are oppressed. Share their burdens, and so complete Christ's law. 3 If you think you are too good for that, you are badly deceived. 4 Make a careful exploration of who you are and the work you have been given, and then sink yourself into that. Don't be impressed with yourself. Don't compare yourself with others. 5 Each of you must take responsibility for doing the creative best you can with your own life. 6 Be very sure now, you who have been trained to a self-sufficient maturity, that you enter into a generous common life with those who have trained you, sharing all the good things that you have and experience. 7 Don't be misled: No one makes a fool of God. What a person plants, he will harvest. The person who plants selfishness, ignoring the needs of others - ignoring God! - 8 harvests a crop of weeds. All he'll have to show for his life is weeds! But the one who plants in response to God, letting God's Spirit do the growth work in him, harvests a crop of real life, eternal life. 9 So let's not allow ourselves to get fatigued doing good. At the right time we will harvest a good crop if we don't give up, or quit. 10 Right now, therefore, every time we get the chance, let us work for the benefit of all, starting with the people closest to us in the community of faith.
Theresa Perren
