“Orange.” “Book.” Just watching her little mouth form the words makes me smile. What is it that is so captivating about our little children learning to talk? For the most part we know they are going to talk but we anticipate those first few words and hang onto them as if they were diamonds.
What happens between then and now? They speak a thousand words and some we agree with and others we wish they’d left unsaid. What happens is our children grow up and no longer just mimic the words out of our own mouths but they actually formulate words from their own thoughts. It is what’s in them that comes out and sometimes it is what we put in them that come out. It truly matters who we listen to. If Adam would have listened to God he would have said no to the fruit Eve offered him. Instead Adam listened to his wife. That changed his life.
Who we listen to can change our lives as well. Tell me who has your ear and I’ll tell you who is influencing you. Choose your friends carefully. Be watchful who you share your thoughts and feelings with. For example it’s not a great idea to ask someone who can’t keep a job to ask them how you can keep yours. If your friend has been married three times perhaps they are not the best source of marriage advice for you to stay married. The serpent had an agenda to destroy Eve and indirectly Adam’s. People don’t always know their own hearts so we need to give our hearts to God who created us and has our best interest.
Genesis 3:3-4 (KJV) “4 Then the serpent said to the woman, “You will not surely die. 5 For God knows that in the day you eat of it your eyes will be opened and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.” 6 So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree desirable to make one wise, she took of its fruit and ate. She also gave to her husband with her, and he ate. 7 Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together and made themselves coverings.”
God had a plan to take care of the problem.
Genesis 3:14 (KJV) “14 So the Lord God said to the serpent: “Because you have done this, You are cursed more than all cattle, And more than every beast of the field; On your belly you shall go, And you shall eat dust All the days of your life. 5 And I will put enmity Between you and the woman, And between your seed and her Seed; He shall bruise your head, And you shall bruise His heel.”
Want to help yourself this year control what comes out of your mouth? Want to make better decisions than you did last year? Start with what you’re putting into yourself. Start by who you’re hanging out with. There is someone who is waiting for you to ask for His help. His name is Jesus. You are a child of God, learn to talk like one.
Psalm 46:1 (ASV) God is our refuge and strength, A very present help in trouble.
What happens between then and now? They speak a thousand words and some we agree with and others we wish they’d left unsaid. What happens is our children grow up and no longer just mimic the words out of our own mouths but they actually formulate words from their own thoughts. It is what’s in them that comes out and sometimes it is what we put in them that come out. It truly matters who we listen to. If Adam would have listened to God he would have said no to the fruit Eve offered him. Instead Adam listened to his wife. That changed his life.
Who we listen to can change our lives as well. Tell me who has your ear and I’ll tell you who is influencing you. Choose your friends carefully. Be watchful who you share your thoughts and feelings with. For example it’s not a great idea to ask someone who can’t keep a job to ask them how you can keep yours. If your friend has been married three times perhaps they are not the best source of marriage advice for you to stay married. The serpent had an agenda to destroy Eve and indirectly Adam’s. People don’t always know their own hearts so we need to give our hearts to God who created us and has our best interest.
Genesis 3:3-4 (KJV) “4 Then the serpent said to the woman, “You will not surely die. 5 For God knows that in the day you eat of it your eyes will be opened and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.” 6 So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree desirable to make one wise, she took of its fruit and ate. She also gave to her husband with her, and he ate. 7 Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together and made themselves coverings.”
God had a plan to take care of the problem.
Genesis 3:14 (KJV) “14 So the Lord God said to the serpent: “Because you have done this, You are cursed more than all cattle, And more than every beast of the field; On your belly you shall go, And you shall eat dust All the days of your life. 5 And I will put enmity Between you and the woman, And between your seed and her Seed; He shall bruise your head, And you shall bruise His heel.”
Want to help yourself this year control what comes out of your mouth? Want to make better decisions than you did last year? Start with what you’re putting into yourself. Start by who you’re hanging out with. There is someone who is waiting for you to ask for His help. His name is Jesus. You are a child of God, learn to talk like one.
Psalm 46:1 (ASV) God is our refuge and strength, A very present help in trouble.
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