1 Peter 4:11 says "whoever speaks is to do so as one who is speaking the utterances of God." I have been greatly convicted by this verse because most of the time I just speak, I don't think to myself "is this something the Lord would have me to say"? Is this edifing or encouraging my husband, my children, my friend, my neighbor or the stranger whose path I cross? I am convinced that if we only spoke the utterances of God we could change the shape of our homes and our spheres of influnce. Jesus said that he does ONLY what he hears the father tell him to do and speaks ONLY what the Father says for him to say. Do we do that? Do we stop our busy lives and ask him before we chose our clothes for the day, our agenda or our words? Those things may sound trivial, but if we cannot hear him in the little things of our daily lives, how will we know HIS voice in the big things? We are called to be like Christ...this is what he did when he walked the dusty roads of Isreal. The Lord's desire for us is to hear him, walk with him so close that we only do and say what we hear the Father tell us.
Abba, that we would be still to listen and brave to do and say only that which you would have for us at this moment, for this day.
Thank you. Just last night I commented to my husband, "imagine what God could do in our lives is we were as faithful to Him as He is to us" - our spoken words included.
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