Pastor's Corner

for Sunday September 25th
Let no unwholesome word proceed from your mouth, but only such a word as is good for edification according to the need of the moment, so that it will give grace to those who hear.(Eph 4:29) Where is the hardest place for you to keep your spiritual guard up and walk out your Christian beliefs? For me it is while I am at work. While at the workplace one can tend to get wrapped up and forget who it is we all really work for. Most of the time when I feel the conversation getting off track I can take the initiative to bring it back in line. There are sometimes however when I choose to allow myself to be sucked into this unwholesome banter and there I am throwing stones when I myself reside in the house of glass. These days the conviction that goes along with these times of underachievement really motivate me to abate the problem and look more to edification and noticing areas of grace in people’s lives. I know one thing that has helped me greatly is trying to filter my mouth by giving myself a “3 second rule”. If I take a moment to think just a little, before I open my mouth, I can save myself from saying some things I may later regret. We don’t put enough weight on our words these days. We have an amazing power in our tongue and we are responsible for bridling it and using our words to lift up, not break down. Death and life are in the [a]power of the tongue, And those who love it will eat its fruit. (Prov 18:21) Wherever it is that seems to be your problem area, a place where you seem to fall short and find yourself left wanting. Take the time to pray yourself into that situation, come in with your spiritual tanks full and ready to edify not crucify. We can make our minds up and utilize the empowerment of the spirit to overcome and have triumph even in the places and in the company of people we have the greatest problem maintaining our spirituality around. This week take an honest inventory of where it is in your life that you need to work on the most and take these scriptures and apply them and see the benefit. Thanks Jake