I would like to share this with my church family. I have been 38 years in the Lord and that sort of qualifies me as an older woman, and I am proud of every grey hair I have earned.
But what I want to share is an admonition that we all be very careful with the pieces of other peoples lives that they entrust us with. Before we share things that others have privileged us to know by sharing their hearts most painful secrets, we need to set our mouths like a safe and never share those things without their permission. We need to be good stewards of that which has been entrusted to us. We need to be trustworthy of the hearts of of others. We need to think if their story was our story, and they were sharing it with someone else without our permission, how we would feel about it. God will hold us accountable for passing on information that in no way is ours to pass on. Let us all be good faithful listeners, and good faithful safe-havens for those who are terrified to share their painful pasts with anybody. Many of their lives depend on what we do with that trust they have bestowed upon us. Just saying.
I love you all and believe that a great revival is coming to worldwide body of Christ, we need to determine now that we will look different than the world around us. We need to only have motives of love. People will come limping into our fellowship, bleeding, dying, aching, and we will have opportunities to share life with them. If we have been those who have shared things entrusted to us in the past, we need to repent and determine we are going to be a different people from now on. It is a great temptation to speak beyond what we are supposed to but:
James 3:2-8
For in many things we offend all. If any man offend not in word, the same is a perfect man, and able also to bridle the whole body. Behold, we put bits in the horses' mouths, that they may obey us; and we turn about their whole body. Behold also the ships, which though they be so great, and are driven of fierce winds, yet are they turned about with a very small helm, whithersoever the governor listeth. Even so the tongue is a little member, and boasteth great things. Behold, how great a matter a little fire kindleth! And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity: so is the tongue among our members, that it defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire of hell. For every kind of beasts, and of birds, and of serpents, and of things in the sea, is tamed, and hath been tamed of mankind: But the tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.
I would suggest studying the entire chapter of James 3.
Loose lips sink ships. We do not want out brothers and sisters in the Lord, or anybody else for that matter, to go down. Let us all weigh carefully what we allow to proceed from our mouths. Love covers a multitude of sins. Jesus remembers our sins no more, He binds up our wounds, let us go and do likewise.
I can remember when the healing balm of Gilead washed over me, and I knew I was healed of my past. It was like nothing the world had to offer. The world scoops us up and uses us, and then casts us off, but Jesus never does. He saves to the uttermost. We are called to be like pastor Cameron shared Sunday, little christs. We need to love like He loves. You know, love is a person. He does not give us love, but He is love in us. In order to show love to others we must stay connected to the source. Love big, love faithful, love to the uttermost, and bring your sheaves with you into your Father's kingdom. Amen?
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