Thoughts on 1
Corinthians Chapter Thirteen-part 6
In
Matthew 12:34 Jesus said to the Pharisees who were so bitter and negative, “O
generation of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things? For out of the
abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.”
Happiness is a choice! Contentment is a choice. Pleasantness is an
attitude of our inner-self. My former
pastor and mentor R.E. Carroll used to say that he often would pray, “LORD
handle me, LORD take care of my attitude! LORD I cannot change the other guy or
his attitudes or actions but LORD please help me with my attitudes and actions!”
Years
ago I first heard the old saying “If you do not want to get burned you had
better stay out of the kitchen”. I have
lived long enough to understand that, as a Christian musician, we often get
burned by those who ought to be helping us.
With the advent of email it is easy for them to fire off a cryptic nasty
negative message without having to face the one that they are targeting with
their anger. Many Christian leaders seem
to have forgotten the Bible’s way of handling a difference found in Galatians
6:1 “Brethren, if a man be overtaken in a fault, ye which are spiritual,
restore such an one in the spirit of meekness; considering thyself, lest thou
also be tempted.” As a Christian
musician let me admonish you to be a part of the solution rather than becoming
part of the problem.
Thought
for the Day
Agape
love is a love that wants to restore others to fellowship with God and with
other Christians. Christ’s prayer in the
garden of Gethsemane was a prayer of forgiveness instead of retribution.
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