Oh man. Today's verse is something I am definitely struggling with. I know my calling to is serve and show compassion and God's love to the poor BUT after this summer I realized that my heart was SO filthy. It was because I had a very difficult time showing compassion towards my parents especially my father. I was doing the exact OPPOSITE of vs. 19 : Slow to listen, quick to speak, and quick to get angry. And God rebuked me saying that I need to learn how to love my family before loving strangers, poor, and etc.
Have a blessed week!! Stay warm :)
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Thanks Inyoung for sharing your thought and lesson you learned from the today's passage. I think it's so true that many people close their ears but open their mouth more often. When you are busy talking, how can you listen to what it is said? The passage is urging us to be attentive to God's word as the first step of maturing as a Christian. Doing and acting has to be immediately followed by listening of the Word of God. If we don't live out what we are taught through the Word of God on daily basis, we forget about what we heard and learned, which means we are not growing as a Christian. Let's all open our ears to God and others (your spouse, parents, children, or friends) and listen to them with our hearts.
thanks for an honest reflection, innie. doesn't the Word of God know the human heart so well? this has got to be one of the most practical instructions given to us in the entire nt. it really chastens me everytime i read it and shows me in my true light. God help me take these words of warning to heart.
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