“Now there was a day when his sons
and daughters were eating and drinking wine in their oldest brother’s house,
and there came a messenger to Job and said, ‘The oxen were plowing and the
donkeys feeding beside them, and the Sabeans fell upon them and took them and
struck down the servants with the edge of the sword, and I alone have escaped
to tell you.’ While he was yet speaking, there came another and said, ‘The fire
of God fell from heaven and burned up the sheep and the servants and consumed
them, and I alone have escaped to tell you.’ While he was yet speaking, there
came another and said, ‘The Chaldeans formed three groups and made a raid on
the camels and took them and struck down the servants with the edge of the
sword, and I alone have escaped to tell you.’ While he was yet speaking, there
came another and said, ‘Your sons and daughters were eating and drinking wine
in their oldest brother’s house, and behold, a great wind came across the
wilderness and struck the four corners of the house, and it fell upon the young
people, and they are dead, and I alone have escaped to tell you.’ Then Job
arose and tore his robe and shaved his head and fell on the ground and
worshiped. And he said, ‘Naked I came from my mother’s womb, and
naked shall I return. The Lord gave, and the Lord has taken away; blessed be
the name of the Lord.’ In all this Job did not sin or charge God with wrong.” ~ Job 1:13-22
“So Satan went out from the presence of the Lord and
struck Job with loathsome sores from the sole of his foot to the crown of his
head. And he took a piece of broken pottery with which to scrape himself while
he sat in the ashes. Then his wife said to him, ‘Do you still hold fast your
integrity? Curse God and die.’ But he said to her, ‘You speak as one of the foolish
women would speak. Shall we receive good from God, and shall we not receive
evil?’ In all this Job did not sin with his lips.” ~ Job 2:7-10
Job lost everything he had. He lost his earthly possessions and every one of his children. He even lost his health, but in all of this Job did not sin with his lips. See I had this bad habit of speaking out of anger. I would say things I probably wouldn’t mean later on, but yet in the heat of the moment my mouth just started running, and I couldn’t seem to shut it up.
Proverbs 18:21 tells us
that “Death and life are in the power of
the tongue, and those who love it will eat its fruits.” Matthew 15:11 says “it is not what goes
into the mouth that defiles a person, but what comes out of the mouth; this
defiles a person.” If we allow
wickedness, hatred, evil to come out of our mouth,
we have to check our spiritual temperature. Luke 6:45 explains it like this, “A good man brings
good things out of the good stored up in his heart, and an evil man brings evil
things out of the evil stored up in his heart. For the mouth speaks what the
heart is full of.” Think about it
like this, if evil things are coming out of your mouth, then there is a lot of evil in your heart that you have to
get rid of. There is a lot of hurt and hatred that you just have to give to the
LORD so that while you are in a fit of rage, you won’t sin.
Here’s one of our biggest
problems, we don’t have control over our emotions. When one thing goes wrong,
everything goes wrong, and our
countenance drops. We allow our situations to dictate our attitude, to dictate
our lives, to dictate who we are. If Job a man who lost everything he held dear
to his heart could keep his mouth shut and not sin with his lips why can’t we
do the same? When in the heat of the moment when your really angry quote Proverbs
4:4 “Be angry, and do not sin; ponder in
your own hearts on your beds, and be silent.”
Peace. Love. Go Forth and Be Silent.
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