Today's study lesson hit me like a ton of bricks! Opening scripture from James 1:19... "My dearly loved brothers, understand this; Everyone must be quick to hear, slow to speak, and slow to anger."
WOW. Well, anyone that knows me well, knows that I have had issues of anger! (Praise God for showing me and convicting me away from this horrid habit/sin!) Thankfully, He wants us to need Him. And I certainly do, daily!
This chapter goes onto to say in Proverbs 17:27-28... "A man of knowledge uses words with restraint, and a man of understanding is even tempered. Even a fool is kept wise if he keeps silent and discerning if he holds his tongue." Whoa!
Again, I praise Him for showing this in me... I know that this has never been a God given gift or "of God"!!! I have blamed it on my genes!! Whatever the case, it was evil, a sin and definitely not necessary!
From here on out, I will HUSH, LISTEN and NOT anger... there are so many times when people haven't listened or heard what I was saying, and it's frustrating. I don't ever want to be one of those non listeners.
Along with the anger that I have had excess of, the study goes on to remind me of the lack of trust we tend to sometimes have in the Lord. Mine was the time we lost the business and our home...a time I thought the Lord was abandoning us!
It took 2.5 years for Him to bring me to my senses. These were sins! Angering and not trusting!!! I look back now in shame! Now I tell Satan to get behind me... and I walk with God!!
There's a paragraph in the study that goes: "If God insists on making more room in our lives, it's so He can bless us with things that really satisfy. Remember! Every good and perfect gift comes from above!"
He is so faithful! In the words of Beth Moore, Let's all move our hands away from the rich soil of our hearts and welcome seeds that sow salvation "to the uttermost"! (Heb. 7:25) I know I'm welcoming those seeds! Won't you!?!
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