Jas 1:19 Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:Have you checked your brakes lately. Sometimes we can cause ourself a lot of trouble if we are not able to slow down or stop quickly enough.
One of the things I have noticed when people want counseling or advice is that they are a lot quicker to speak than they are to listen. Sometimes you will be telling them what the Bible says about a certain situation and they will be nodding and you can tell that they are not listening. They are just waiting until you finish so that they can talk. We are to be swift to hear not swift to speak.
Sometimes we need to put the brakes on our speaking. Once you have said something you can not unsay it. Trying to take something back that you have already said is like trying to unshoot a gun, you can't do it and the damage is already done. I could not possibly count the times that I have put my foot in my mouth and wished that I had not said something. It would have been much better if I had put on the brakes and slowed down long enough think through what I was saying.
A man once was staying at a Bed and Breakfast Inn somewhere in rural New England. He sat out on the porch with several guests and the owner of the inn. They just sat in the old rockers and didn't say a word. The man finally asked, "Don't ya'll ever say anything up here?"
The owner of the inn just said, "Not unless we can improve upon the silence."
Another instance where we should put on our brakes is when it comes to our temper. Sometimes we explode like a firecracker and when it is all over we realize we became too angry too fast.Anger very seldom accomplishes anything other than making us feel worse. Maybe if we would be a little slower to get angry we might find that we don't have quite as much to be angry about as we thought we did.
Have you checked your brakes lately?
One of the things I have noticed when people want counseling or advice is that they are a lot quicker to speak than they are to listen. Sometimes you will be telling them what the Bible says about a certain situation and they will be nodding and you can tell that they are not listening. They are just waiting until you finish so that they can talk. We are to be swift to hear not swift to speak.
Sometimes we need to put the brakes on our speaking. Once you have said something you can not unsay it. Trying to take something back that you have already said is like trying to unshoot a gun, you can't do it and the damage is already done. I could not possibly count the times that I have put my foot in my mouth and wished that I had not said something. It would have been much better if I had put on the brakes and slowed down long enough think through what I was saying.
A man once was staying at a Bed and Breakfast Inn somewhere in rural New England. He sat out on the porch with several guests and the owner of the inn. They just sat in the old rockers and didn't say a word. The man finally asked, "Don't ya'll ever say anything up here?"
The owner of the inn just said, "Not unless we can improve upon the silence."
Another instance where we should put on our brakes is when it comes to our temper. Sometimes we explode like a firecracker and when it is all over we realize we became too angry too fast.Anger very seldom accomplishes anything other than making us feel worse. Maybe if we would be a little slower to get angry we might find that we don't have quite as much to be angry about as we thought we did.
Have you checked your brakes lately?
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