Sermon Cloud

Once I visited the blog a young lady who had various points of views. They were innocent enough. Nothing wrong with them. I noticed that she zip comment in the articles she had written.



So I decided to change her luck and explore a theme or two. One she liked the second she not. She wrote a quotation of someone who had a thing who told stories or events or even called it gossip.



I took the liberty to tell her an event that had happened to me that illutrated a point. But are we really listening and dicerning?



While the bible outlines the danger of a malicious tongue, the spoken word is the only way we know how to tell someone where they are going astray. You can also write them a note who or which might end up in the wastepaper basket.



Thou Shall not Judge- is the most used pass-me-by, shake you off phrase taken out of the bible. It's the favorite response of youngsters that tune you off when you want to correct them.



But what about us who know better? What method do we use to shake of those that want to correct us? Are we really prepared to evaluate a message?



Do we run or examine? Listen and meditate? or just ignore the whole issue. What about the counsel of God, is it or what is to us? How so we recieve it? Do we treat it as careless words written for someone else? How much do we listen to what God hasth to say?



So where is all this going? We usually have an idea of what a bad tongue can do or gossip, but what if the message is the counsel of God? How dicerning are we? Are we really prepared to dicern what is error and what is truth?



Is gossip or is it message that you need to hear. May the lord help you dicern. Amen