Wait!! Don’t Hit The Enter Key!!
Sitting here at Isaacks, one of my favorite local restaurants looking out the window. Watching the traffic flow and wondering about the people driving by. Wondering what things are on their heart, their minds, what battles are they fighting? What stories do they have to tell?
We all have things we can share. Thoughts, ideas, hopes and dreams. We can build each other up. We can fellowship, talk and share just like we do each day here.
We never know what we might share today or tomorrow, what kind of an impact it will have on others. It is so very important to have control of our tongue or pen or in this case the keyboard. That little weapon, the tongue can get us into a lot of trouble. It can bring life or death. It can build up or tear down.
The word’s we speak, the words we type and the words we send have the power to bring life or death to the heart, to the spirit of someone and once that word is spoken or sent out, it is impossible to retrieve. It is like an e-mail or post that we send in the heat of anger, it is gone and cannot be retrieved.
Let us watch over this unruly member, the tongue. Let us set up a guard in our heart, let us ask the Lord to help us to watch over the words that we speak, the words that we send. Let us take time to sit back and reflect for a little while before we speak or hit the send key.
Let us speak life encouraging words. Let us be honest but reflect for a moment before we open our mouth or hit the send key!
Till later!
Paul