I got this quote from OSF ministries the other day, share this with me:
Surely what a man does when he is taken off his guard is the best evidence for what sort of man he is. If there are rats in a cellar, you are most likely to see them if you go in very suddenly. But the suddenness does not create the rats; it only prevents them from hiding. In the same way, the suddenness of the provocation does not make me ill-tempered; it only shows me what an ill-tempered man I am.
C.S. LEWIS
Words of Jesus found in Luke 6:43-45 NASB, share this with me.
For there is no good tree which produces bad fruit, nor, on the other hand, a bad tree which produces good fruit. For each tree is known by its own fruit. For men do not gather figs from thorns, nor do they pick grapes from a briar bush. The good man out of the good treasure of his heart brings forth what is good; and the evil man out of the evil treasure brings forth what is evil; for his mouth speaks from that which fills his heart.
You want to know whats in my heart? Just let me stub my toe, mash my finger, let someone do me wrong, or have things go contrary to the way I think they should go. My mouth will amplify like a Marshall Amp what has been put into my heart. I put certain kinds of language and thoughts into my heart years ago, and exercised these words on a regular basis for many years. Even though for the last six and a half that I have been clean and sober, I have had a daily diet of the Word of God, I still find at times one of these rats coming out of the cellar. For me one of the most difficult aspects of changing my behavior through having Christ In my life and the indwelling of the Holy Spirit, has been changing how I talk. I am not just talking about the use of bad words, but I am talking about how I speak. I find the language that we use as Americans to be some what deceiving. We have a way of using words on a regular basis that we dont mean. One example is the use of the word die and death. Im just dying to do it, it will just kill me if I dont, and so on. Another example is our use of the word hate and love. We have incorporated them into our daily language when we really dont mean them at all. Using words that I dont mean to use goes back a long way in my life, all the way back to when I was a child and first was learning to talk. Today I find the process of retraining myself to be no more than thinking before I speak, and thinking, what would Jesus say? God is doing for me what I could not do for myself JRE
We all like the twilight in spiritual and moral matters, not the intensity of black and white, not the clear lines of demarcation, saved and unsaved. We prefer things to be hazy, winsome, and indefinite, without the clear light. When the light does come difficulty is experienced, for when a man awakens he sees a great many things. We may feel complacent with a background of drab, but to be brought up against the white background of Jesus Christ is an immensely uncomfortable thing.
OSWALD CHAMBERS
Surely what a man does when he is taken off his guard is the best evidence for what sort of man he is. If there are rats in a cellar, you are most likely to see them if you go in very suddenly. But the suddenness does not create the rats; it only prevents them from hiding. In the same way, the suddenness of the provocation does not make me ill-tempered; it only shows me what an ill-tempered man I am.
C.S. LEWIS
Words of Jesus found in Luke 6:43-45 NASB, share this with me.
For there is no good tree which produces bad fruit, nor, on the other hand, a bad tree which produces good fruit. For each tree is known by its own fruit. For men do not gather figs from thorns, nor do they pick grapes from a briar bush. The good man out of the good treasure of his heart brings forth what is good; and the evil man out of the evil treasure brings forth what is evil; for his mouth speaks from that which fills his heart.
You want to know whats in my heart? Just let me stub my toe, mash my finger, let someone do me wrong, or have things go contrary to the way I think they should go. My mouth will amplify like a Marshall Amp what has been put into my heart. I put certain kinds of language and thoughts into my heart years ago, and exercised these words on a regular basis for many years. Even though for the last six and a half that I have been clean and sober, I have had a daily diet of the Word of God, I still find at times one of these rats coming out of the cellar. For me one of the most difficult aspects of changing my behavior through having Christ In my life and the indwelling of the Holy Spirit, has been changing how I talk. I am not just talking about the use of bad words, but I am talking about how I speak. I find the language that we use as Americans to be some what deceiving. We have a way of using words on a regular basis that we dont mean. One example is the use of the word die and death. Im just dying to do it, it will just kill me if I dont, and so on. Another example is our use of the word hate and love. We have incorporated them into our daily language when we really dont mean them at all. Using words that I dont mean to use goes back a long way in my life, all the way back to when I was a child and first was learning to talk. Today I find the process of retraining myself to be no more than thinking before I speak, and thinking, what would Jesus say? God is doing for me what I could not do for myself JRE
We all like the twilight in spiritual and moral matters, not the intensity of black and white, not the clear lines of demarcation, saved and unsaved. We prefer things to be hazy, winsome, and indefinite, without the clear light. When the light does come difficulty is experienced, for when a man awakens he sees a great many things. We may feel complacent with a background of drab, but to be brought up against the white background of Jesus Christ is an immensely uncomfortable thing.
OSWALD CHAMBERS
