"It is better to be marked by God than marketed by man," I heard Christine Caine say. Marked by God.
Jesus did not self-promote.
Isaiah 42:2 ~ "He will not cry out, nor raise His voice, nor cause His voice to be heard in the street."
He did not need to, He was decidedly marked by God ~ Isaiah 42:1 ~ "Behold, My Servant whom I uphold, My Elect one in whom My soul delights! I have put My Spirit upon Him; He will bring forth justice to the Gentiles."
He was a quiet sort but when He spoke it was of His Father's business. Always about His Father's business. What am I about?
He was a quiet sort and yet, His comparatively few words revolutionized our entire world.
We ramble and we babble and accomplish precious little; words, words, words, so many empty, futile words.
But, His words are such a stark contrast to our words. Why? Because, Jesus did not self promote and He always spoke His Father's business.
Jesus did not come to sell the world on His story or convince us of His glory. Jesus is God. He does not need our approval, He is not concerned with how He stands in the polls, and He will not engage in some cosmic popularity contest. He is God and we are man. He did not "cry aloud in the streets" because He is Creator and we are creation.
His Words were not weapons wielded to amass fame, fortune or fans. His Words were weapons wielded to glorify His Father and bring life to a dying world.
My arsenal of weaponry words, how is it wielded and what is yielded? Glory to Father, giving life or glory to self, amassing death?
I have waged war with many weapons of words intent on the wrong victor ~ the words have been wielded for me.
Repentance is needed for words of self.
Matthew 12:34 ~ " ... For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks."
~this heart surely has an abundance of self and I have a litany to show for it.
Brood of vipers. Much repentance is needed.
And His Words were about His Father's business, always.
Matthew 12:36 ~ "But I say to you that for every idle word men may speak, they will give an account of it in the judgment day."
Selah.
And I open my mouth to speak and again I am stunned into silence by the gravity of "every idle word.'
Why an account for idle words? Some cruel celestial game of punishment aimed at our tiny, trivial minds? No, an account because time is short, a harvest is coming, and our Master was always about His Father's business because He loved the world that much to waste no words on idle chatter.
Do we love this dying, spinning globe with its fallen humanity to stop all the idle chatter and be about the fields of white?
The harvest is coming and the workers are few, for idle chatter and words of self flow rapidly from far too many of His people. And the few who surrender words and die to idle chatter and words of self are so harshly judged and tossed aside. For they stand as silent words spoken in testimony of our words of self.
But, "every idle word" we will answer for.
Selah.
Jesus did not self-promote.
Isaiah 42:2 ~ "He will not cry out, nor raise His voice, nor cause His voice to be heard in the street."
He did not need to, He was decidedly marked by God ~ Isaiah 42:1 ~ "Behold, My Servant whom I uphold, My Elect one in whom My soul delights! I have put My Spirit upon Him; He will bring forth justice to the Gentiles."
He was a quiet sort but when He spoke it was of His Father's business. Always about His Father's business. What am I about?
He was a quiet sort and yet, His comparatively few words revolutionized our entire world.
We ramble and we babble and accomplish precious little; words, words, words, so many empty, futile words.
But, His words are such a stark contrast to our words. Why? Because, Jesus did not self promote and He always spoke His Father's business.
Jesus did not come to sell the world on His story or convince us of His glory. Jesus is God. He does not need our approval, He is not concerned with how He stands in the polls, and He will not engage in some cosmic popularity contest. He is God and we are man. He did not "cry aloud in the streets" because He is Creator and we are creation.
His Words were not weapons wielded to amass fame, fortune or fans. His Words were weapons wielded to glorify His Father and bring life to a dying world.
My arsenal of weaponry words, how is it wielded and what is yielded? Glory to Father, giving life or glory to self, amassing death?
I have waged war with many weapons of words intent on the wrong victor ~ the words have been wielded for me.
Repentance is needed for words of self.
Matthew 12:34 ~ " ... For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks."
~this heart surely has an abundance of self and I have a litany to show for it.
Brood of vipers. Much repentance is needed.
And His Words were about His Father's business, always.
Matthew 12:36 ~ "But I say to you that for every idle word men may speak, they will give an account of it in the judgment day."
Selah.
And I open my mouth to speak and again I am stunned into silence by the gravity of "every idle word.'
Why an account for idle words? Some cruel celestial game of punishment aimed at our tiny, trivial minds? No, an account because time is short, a harvest is coming, and our Master was always about His Father's business because He loved the world that much to waste no words on idle chatter.
Do we love this dying, spinning globe with its fallen humanity to stop all the idle chatter and be about the fields of white?
The harvest is coming and the workers are few, for idle chatter and words of self flow rapidly from far too many of His people. And the few who surrender words and die to idle chatter and words of self are so harshly judged and tossed aside. For they stand as silent words spoken in testimony of our words of self.
But, "every idle word" we will answer for.
Selah.
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