"As you enter the house of God, keep your ears open and your mouth shut. It is evil to make mindless offerings to God. Don't make rash promises, and don't be hasty in bringing matters before God. After all, God is in heaven, and you are here on earth. So let your words be few.
Too much activity gives you restless dreams: too many words make you a fool.
When you make a promise to God, don't delay in following through, for God takes no pleasure in fools. Keep all the promises you make to him. It is better to say nothing than to make a promise and not keep it. Don't let your mouth make you sin. And don't defend yourself by telling the Temple messenger that the promise you made was a mistake. That would make God angry, and he might wipe out everything you have achieved.
Talk is cheap, like daydreams and other useless activities. Fear God instead." (Ecclesiastes 5:1-7 NLT)
"Finally, be ye of one mind, having compassion one of another, love a brethren, be pitiful, be courteous: not rendering evil for evil, or railing for railing: but contrariwise blessing; knowing that ye are thereunto called, that ye should inherit a blessing. For he that will love life, and see good days, let him refrain his tongue from evil, and his lips that they speak no guile: let him eschew evil, and do good; let him seek peace, and ensue it. For the eyes of the Lord are over the righteous, and his ears are open unto their prayers: but the face of the Lord is against them that do evil." (1 Peter 3:8-12 KJV)
Hopefully there are no hard feelings between us, as there might be some who might have taken some of what I shared as if I was trying to make my case. Just in case, I am sorry if it seemed that way, because there are too many differences between us; we need to be more compassionate towards one another!
As it turns out, each and every one of us has something wrong with us, in one form or another. Looking at some of the great preachers and those who served God through thick and thin, they all had something they could not overcome; some of those that were the very best, finished quite badly; some of which might have even lost their minds.
We are frail and fragile servants of a great and awesome God...
"For God, who commanded the light to shine out of the darkness, hath shinned in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us." (2 Corinthians 4:6-7 KJV)
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