SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 2/27/2013
1:52 PM
My Worship Time Focus: Human Speech
Bible Reading & Meditation Reference: Proverbs
Message of the
verses: I have mentioned in earlier
SD’s that I follow the commentaries or “Be” books of Dr. Warren Wiersbe because
his commentaries are easy to read but the give a person much information that
can be used in their lives. Dr. Wiersbe’s
commentary on Proverbs is different than his other commentaries that I have
read so far, different because the others went in a verse by verse, section by
section of the book which is the way that his commentary on Proverbs
began. However after Proverbs chapter
nine his commentary became more of a topical type of commentary which is what
we have been dealing with. I can truly
understand why the study of Proverbs after chapter nine is better done in a
topical way because there are verses that are in it that do not seem to go tighter
and so you have to take many of the verses that speak of a certain subject and
put them together which is what we are doing now. We are looking at information from the ninth
chapter of Wiersbe’s book in which he entitles “A Matter of Life and Death
(Human Speech).”
Here is a quotation from the last paragraph of Dr.
Wiersbe’s introduction to this chapter: “When
you summarize what Proverbs teaches about human speech, you end up with four
important propositions: (1) speech is an
awesome gift from God; (2) speech can be used to do good; (3) speech can be
used to do evil; and (4) only God can help us use speech to do good.”
Solomon writes the following in Proverbs 18:21 “Death and
life are in the power of the tongue, And those who love it will eat its fruit.” Think about how the tongue can give life or
produce death. A judge can sentence a
person to death simply by speaking. A
gossip can get on their phone and tarnish the reputation of a person just by
speaking. It is said that for every word
that is written in Hitler’s book Mein Kampf
that 125 people died in world war two.
The NT writer James has much to say about the tongue in James 3:5-8, “5 So also the tongue is a small part of the
body, and yet it boasts of great things. See how great a forest is set aflame
by such a small fire! 6 And the tongue is a fire,
the very world of iniquity; the
tongue is set among our members as that which defiles the entire body, and sets on fire the course of
our life, and is
set on fire by hell. 7 For every
species of beasts and birds, of reptiles and creatures of the sea, is tamed and
has been tamed by the human race. 8 But no one can tame the tongue;
it is a restless evil and full of deadly poison.”
We will get into the first point from Proverbs and Dr.
Wiersbe’s commentary on the fact that speech is an awesome gift from God in the
next SD. Here is something to think
about until then: When we look around at
all of God’s creation we only see mankind with the ability to speak and that
fact alone should make people realize that we were created by an all knowing,
all powerful, all wise God. To realize
this fact is good, but to realize that the creator of this world became a man
and taught on this earth that He made for three years and then died on a cruel
cross so that those who realize that He did it for them and who realize the
need for someone to take their place on the cross to pay for their sins is so
much better yet. If you have not done
this then realize that you were born a sinner and that is why you sin, realize
that your sin separates you from a Holy God.
Realize that Jesus Christ loves you enough to come to earth to take your
place on the cross so that you can one day be with Him forever in heaven by
accepting the payment that He paid for you on the cross. The words that I tell you have life for this
is what the Bible teaches.
2/27/2013 2:24 PM
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