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Talking and Listening
Walt Disney knew that children wished animals could talk. And so he gave them a talking mouse, duck, and dog, plus an entire chatty menagerie. Even after eight decades of Disney, however, animals still don’t talk. People alone can do that.
God talks. It was his marvelous decision to share that ability with his children. But with that ability comes serious responsibility. When your mother was comforting you about playground bullies, she encouraged you to shrug off mean words since “names will never hurt me.” Nice try, Mom, but you know that’s not true.
Words have enormous power. In fact, “the tongue has the power of life and death” (Proverbs 18:21). Words can crush the life and hope out of a person. You remember your drill sergeant, right? Words can help a broken heart start beating again. Words are God’s chosen vehicle for sharing the good news of our Savior Jesus Christ.
We could all stand a tongue overhaul in God’s shop. Listen first.
Walt Disney knew that children wished animals could talk. And so he gave them a talking mouse, duck, and dog, plus an entire chatty menagerie. Even after eight decades of Disney, however, animals still don’t talk. People alone can do that.
God talks. It was his marvelous decision to share that ability with his children. But with that ability comes serious responsibility. When your mother was comforting you about playground bullies, she encouraged you to shrug off mean words since “names will never hurt me.” Nice try, Mom, but you know that’s not true.
Words have enormous power. In fact, “the tongue has the power of life and death” (Proverbs 18:21). Words can crush the life and hope out of a person. You remember your drill sergeant, right? Words can help a broken heart start beating again. Words are God’s chosen vehicle for sharing the good news of our Savior Jesus Christ.
We could all stand a tongue overhaul in God’s shop. Listen first.
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About this Plan
The experience of serving your country overseas--and sometimes seeing firsthand man’s inhumanity to man--may teach you important lessons about life while turning your stomach at the same time. But recognize that God has an even better way for us to learn life wisdom, a way that continually draws us closer to him no matter how far from family or church we might be. Because of his great love for us, he would much rather make us wiser through words. In this way we wouldn’t be sadder but wiser; we would be wiser and happier. The Bible’s book of Proverbs is an absolute gold mine of wisdom for the daily decisions you must make. It will help you develop your personal values and tune your life’s agenda more closely to resemble God’s.
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