So many gold nuggets, but this morning I'm going to focus on Prov. 25:28, "He that hath no rule over his own spirit is like a city that is broken down, and without walls."
In other words, when we don't allow the Holy Spirit to control our thoughts/emotions/tongue/expressions etc, we are like a city full of breaches. Our walls are broken down and the enemy can come in on every side as he wishes... It's deadly! We have no spiritual fortification!
Ellen White writes in the book Education, "In one moment, by the hasty passionate, careless tongue, may be wrought evil that a whole lifetimes repentance cannot undo. Oh, the hearts that are broken, the friends estranged, the lives wrecked, by the harsh, hasty words of those who might have brought help and healing." (Education, p. 236, 237)
Instead of giving loose reign to our every impulse, our every emotion, our every thought, let us seek to bind up the corner of our hearts and the corner of our mouths in the fear of the Lord. Instead of cursing, let our words be full of grace. Then we can fulfill the calling of Proverbs 25:11, "A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of silver."
What a beautiful illustration of what our words should be...
Tomorrow's Reading: Prov. 27-28 and 1 Thes. 5
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