Day: January 22, 2015

“Don’t allow love to turn into lust, setting off a downhill slide into sexual promiscuity, filthy practices, or bullying greed. Though some tongues just love the taste of gossip, those who follow Jesus have better uses for language than that. Don’t talk dirty or silly. That kind of talk doesn’t fit our style. Thanksgiving is our dialect.”

Do you think it’s cool to do all of the above?  Seriously?  Because if you do, you are fooling yourself.  Not only is it uncool, it is a waste of your energies.  If you are God’s child, and believe that the Holy Spirit dwells within your body — your physical body — then you are a new creature, and there is no room for any of these wasteful behaviors.  This is what the believer knows to be true — that a lifestyle such as the one described above (promiscuity, gossip, covetousness, etc.) is not one that “fits our style.”  Don’t fall into the trap of thinking that any of that is any good; it isn’t!  It’s vile and wasteful, and a waste of breath and time and life.  Turn away, gentle reader, toward the use of “thanksgiving” as the medium of communication with one and all.  Have a grateful heart for all that you have and all that you are, and aim to live each moment in the knowledge of that grace.