How interesting life is when you think about it. Just when you think you're at your lowest, someone crosses paths with you and lets you know they prayed for you. I had a lady say that to me today. She prayed for me when I had been so sick in the hospital. I needed to hear that so badly today. Just when I think that I've gone too far from my Source, He lets me know that He's as close as the mention of His Name. It's those things that truly make life what its all about.
It's not about the daily grind.
It's not about how short you feel you come to the mark. Yes, I don't always hit the mark...the mark tends to hit me most of the time.
Idle words... oh yeah...they've been said...unproductive as they are....yet God chooses to let me know just how close He is through this one individual who caringly tells me they've been praying for me. I feel such strength in those words.
Idle words - spoken from frustration, stress, anxiety, fear, anger, depression... none of these things are productive in nature. Overwhelmed by the trials of life we tend to get caught up in the moment of things and open trap door and trap ourselves with these idle words.
It's not about the daily grind.
It's not about how short you feel you come to the mark. Yes, I don't always hit the mark...the mark tends to hit me most of the time.
Idle words... oh yeah...they've been said...unproductive as they are....yet God chooses to let me know just how close He is through this one individual who caringly tells me they've been praying for me. I feel such strength in those words.
Idle words - spoken from frustration, stress, anxiety, fear, anger, depression... none of these things are productive in nature. Overwhelmed by the trials of life we tend to get caught up in the moment of things and open trap door and trap ourselves with these idle words.
Matthew 12:36
36 But I say to you that for every idle word men may speak, they will give account of it in the day of judgment.
Idle Words: empty rhetoric or insincere or exaggerated talk
Words in Scripture context need to be weighed with caution and reverence. Word is Spirit as God is Spirit. When I allow myself to go down the road of empty rhetoric I am being just that: empty of the Life that I claim to have. I don't want that. I want to be full of life. There is dynamic power in word.
Much like today when that lady told me that she had been praying for me. It's so good to know that you're thought of. That you're loved. That you are on someone's mind. I think that so many times we forget the importance of each other. We get so caught up in our own world with our own issues and faults and problems that we don't take the time to find out about the other's needs, wishes, desires. Isn't that what we all want? To be loved.
I don't want to sound like I'm tooting my own horn cause that's not what this blog is for. This is purely just an example. A couple of weeks ago now, I took two bouquets of flowers to the hospital where my grandmother and uncle were receiving care. They still talk about the flowers and vases. A simple act means a whole lot in times of transition and difficulty.
So for all the unproductive idle words thank goodness that there is the Love that covers a multitude of sin. Thank the Lord for mercy...grace...abundant Spirit nature.
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