Who is Wise and Understanding Among You? – James 3:13-18

Living Wise and Unferstanding

Have you got a big mouth? Do you often speak out the truth as you know it, and someone has been slandered or gossiped about?

Does your tongue ever sink to such a low place that you offend many people?

Are there many people that you speak the truth to who come to you for various reasons?

Do you give poor advice to others so that they may be encouraged to be poor advice themselves and take steps to get out of poverty or lack?

Do the words that come out of your mouth justifications your life or do they put others in bondage?

God admonished us to be careful concerning what we speak. For out of the mouth come words that discipline those who hear them. As a result, they deal a double blow to those who hear them. They keep the whole nation under bondage.

They keep the whole nation under the sway of Satan. TheyCertainlySinners have problems with their tongues, they are most likely depressed or having problems that are spiritually unsound, and they may be longing to be disconnected from God, but they have a stronghold against Him.

As Christians, we deal with depression and trials and tribulations, but the Word says that we should add several hitchhikes to the end of our tongue spoken under the stress of the circumstances. It says that we should baptize what the mouth speaks with the words of faith. So that when a circumstance comes because of the words that come out of your mouth, you have the confidence in the faithfulness of God that the words will accomplish what He said they would, therefore you should be careful to overcome the devices of the devil.

For the words of our mouths are a mirror of what is in our hearts, and what the will of the heart is. Whatever we have said in the dark will be revealed in the light, whether we give praise or blame. It will be revealed regardless of you actually honoring those who have done things for you. It will be evident regardless of whether you are speaking rightly or speaking wrongly.

Proverbs tells us that when we are cruel and unjust to others, our hearts are being cruel and unjust to God. We are not covering up our offenses to God and we are not using our tongue to bless God, the more we give the more the light comes to reveal the things that were done wrong. The more light comes, the bigger the revelation will be. And the biggest revelation is the truth about our own hearts.

When we confess our sins, God has the privilege of forgiving us and we have the opportunity to be presented for mercy just as a child would have been rejected by a parent and has to start over.

2 Corinthians 5:21 says that a person confessed with his mouth his sins, he has believed in his heart that God forgives and that judgment belongs to God.

And in Matthew 18.19 we read that if we claim to be without sin, it is impossible to be in the body until God has expressed for us what the will of God is. God is sovereign over the heartedly choosing and the sooner we learn to say “no” the better our relationship with God will be and the closer we will be to walking in the light of His face. “.. whatsoever we bind on earth shall be bound in heaven, and whatever we loose on earth shall be loose in heaven”

There is no substance in our lives that is not chosen. The old saying is that you can lead a horse to water and he will drink. Is true in this case because all of the issues in our lives are ones in which we chose to place them our lives. They were not placed there by some capricious external force, but by ourselves in the dimension of the spirit.

Now, I have to ask you a question. Which of the following has been placed inside of you by parents, family, friends, relatives, friends, the media, lovers?

Will the above items below affect your decision in selecting the next president?

Do you consistently look at the issues from the point of view that you can blame/animousize everyone else for your inadequacies?

Do you consider issues that you may be helpless over having to handle?

What about an issue where you know you have a need? But, for whatever reason, you cannot access the resource that is available to you locally?

Do you depend on others for support?

Are you aware of the language you use even when you are ignorant?

Have you used the language that others are aware of using to you?

Are you aware of the actual behaviors others exhibit so you can write them off as silly, ignorant, and senseless?

Have you watched others, who are so oblivious to their own self-governing issues, that you have wondered if they actually understand what they are going through?