James gave a warning of the evil poison of the tongue. He described some who try to use their tongue as praise and blessing to God, then turn around to use their tongue to speak evil of one another. “With it we bless our God and Father, and with it we curse men, who have been made in the similitude of God. Out of the same mouth proceed blessing and cursing. These things ought not to be so” (James 3:9-10). We cannot use our tongue to curse and bad-mouth others, then continue “business as usual” with our relationship with God. The Bible says that such a tongue behavior is characteristic of hypocrites. “The hypocrite with his mouth destroys his neighbor… “(Prov. 11:9).
A Bridled Tongue…
It has been said that the “tongue” is one of the most exercised muscles of our body. It has been estimated that in a typical week, the average person will speak enough words to fill a 500 page book! However, for the Christian, the use of the tongue must be a matter of careful forethought and discipline. The Bible warns that believers who do not bring restraint to their tongue and speech have been deceived — and without such control over their words, their religious acts are worthless and hypocritical. “If anyone among you thinks he is religious, and does not bridle his tongue but deceives his own heart, this one’s religion is useless” (James 1:26). It is a deception for any of us to think that Jesus can be Lord over our life, without also becoming Lord over our tongue…
How Is Your Vision?
There are two different types of blindness one being physical and the other being spiritual. Physical blindness is easy to recognize due to the outward signs that are shown but recognizing spiritual blindness requires maturity in the Word of God to recognize what is actually taking place. There are two different confirmations that take place within spiritual sight one being verbal and the other being in the signs.
Spiritual signs normally start in a small way but over time they can magnify in ways that one can not miss. The object is to recognize the spiritual signs and learn to seek God for the direction in moving forward. For there is nothing that we can do in the physical to hold something together in the spiritual but when we learn to allow God to hold things together in the spiritual is when we will find the unity of love within the physical…
Therefore what God has joined together, let man not separate…Mark 10:9
James A. Harrison
Do Not Covet…
In Matthew 20 we learn a valuable lesson between the landowner and the workers. Throughout the day the land owner went into town and hired others to join his workers in the field. When the time came to pay the workers for their daily wages the landowner paid the same wages to the ones that worked an hour compared to the ones that worked all day. The interesting part of this message is the order from which the landowner called the workers and that all workers received the same pay.
Within this lesson we can find a test to insure that sin does not creep in and the Lord is teaching us to not focus on anyone else but ourselves. It is very easy to allow jealousy to enter into our spirit and when we allow this it only opens the door for Satan to rob us of the blessings that we have at hand. This parable in Matthew 20 parallels the lesson with the prodigal sons brother who became jealous when his brother returned.
Rather than the workers getting angry and jealous of the new workers that were hired the Lord is teaching us to be thankful for what we have and appreciative for the new help at hand. Can you imagine the next day in the field between the old workers and the new? How do you think they felt that day when the landowner went out again and hired new workers that made the new from yesterday old? Can you see a reciprocating lesson that Jesus is teaching to you and me?
In other words we are to focus on ourselves and not covet another in thanksgiving for what we have. Can you imagine the spirit within the workers working together in unity if they all understood this message?
James A. Harrison
Earth Quakes In The House…
For several years now these messages have been a shout into the wilderness for those that have lost their Way to come back home. There is no question that judgment is at our feet here in America for our national sin and the longer America neglects the facts the more shaken it will become. Why is that we tend to wait until something drastic happens before we Wake Up to recognize the Truth? How hard do we have to be shaken before this nation wakes from its sleep?
Had you rather someone wake you with a gentle whisper of love or does it take an earth quake to get you to listen? The object in life is to learn how to recognize the gentle whisper of God to guide our direction in obedience to His Word and when we neglect this fact is when further discipline is sure to come. How long Lord must the people remain asleep before they return to you? How far must America fall before they realize that you Lord are the only One that can pick them up? Have we simply just gone too far as Sodom and Gomorrah in the national sin? If so, please Lord protect the righteous as you did with Abraham’s family for your children to stand again.
Don’t be naive to the facts within the season that we are in here in America and lets pray that God will raise up leaders that are willing to truly clean the house that has become so dirty. In addition don’t over look the responsibility that each one of us have to maintain the portions that we have been given. For what good is it if we sit around pointing at the dirt in someone else’s home when we have things hidden within our own?
James A. Harrison
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