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What Do We Say?

by Jerry Ousley
8/25/2017 / Christian Living

Now why did I say that? We were having a wonderful conversation, a friend and I. In the recesses of my mind, beneath cobwebs and rusty filing cabinet drawers, I knew that what I said would offend her. Yet during the course of our discussion, it just came out like toxic waste flowing from a pipe into a river. My words also had the same affect that the toxic waste had. The toxic waste eventually kills fish and wildlife and my words killed our good conversation. It offended my friend and I had some explaining to do.

Isn’t it funny how that we sometimes get our words twisted? Perhaps you don’t have this problem but I certainly do. I’ll have something that in my mind sounds very profound and I just know that it will help the person to which I’m talking to, but the words come spilling from my mouth somehow get mixed up and I get into trouble.

Some of you may remember this story but shortly after Deb and I were married we went to a certain restaurant (yes, I know that was forty years ago). I was trying to be very polite and I had looked over the menu and made my selection, then turned to Deb intending to say, “What would you like?” Only it didn’t come out that way; my mind meant “What would you like?” but my cotton-pickin’ mouth said, “Do you want anything?” Well Duh! Of course she wanted something – we were in a restaurant. She was offended and mad and folded her menu as she responded, “NO! I DON’T WANT ANYTHING, THANK YOU!”

Now I should have known what I had done. At the time I couldn’t understand why my words had offended her. I had asked what she’d like to have didn’t I? Yes, in my mind, but my stupid mouth twisted the words to make it sound as if I didn’t want her to get anything to eat. Then, like a bigger dummy I went ahead, ordered and ate while she sat there in utter amazement and watched me eat. I finally convinced her to explain why she was so upset once we got back into the car. Man, talk about eating words! And I was already full too!

1 Corinthians 2:13 says, “These things we also speak, not in words which man’s wisdom teaches but which the Holy Spirit teaches, comparing spiritual things with spiritual.” Once we have received the Spirit of God in our lives, once we have come to know Jesus Christ as our personal Savior, our vocabulary begins to change. But first we need to ask the question, “What things is Paul talking about?” If we read the entire chapter we discover that the things we speak about is the wisdom of the Spirit. The wisdom that comes from God cannot be understood when it is spoken to one who only thinks, acts, and speaks with the wisdom of man.

Here it is. Many today are trying to interpret the spiritual by using the wisdom of the natural. Although man has advanced in knowledge, his wisdom cannot go beyond what we can see, feel, hear, taste and touch. If it cannot be experienced through our senses then it cannot be the truth. That’s what the wisdom of man says.

When we come to the Lord in salvation the Holy Spirit takes up abode in our lives. When we begin thinking like God thinks (that comes from reading the word and simply believing what it tells us) then we are thinking and speaking of spiritual things. We understand more clearly because we have come to accept the supernatural acts and miracles spoken of in the Bible. Perhaps some of you have not only read about it and believed, but you have also experienced a miracle and believe. But the natural man cannot fathom the spiritual without coming to the Lord because inside his spirit is dead and buried. He cannot see into the spiritual world because it violates his senses.

Ah, but when we come to the Lord we are awakened to another sense; a sixth sense! It is none other than faith. Faith becomes a sense; a spiritual sense that lets us take but a brief peek every now and then, into the spiritual world. Faith allows us to simply believe the word of God and know that it goes way beyond the natural senses of man. So, what do you say? Got faith?

Jerry D. Ousley is the author of ?Soul Challenge?, ?Soul Journey?, ?Ordeal?, ?The Spirit Bread Daily Devotional and his first novel ?The Shoe Tree.? Visit our website at spiritbread.com to download these and more completely free of charge.

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