Some verses I liked today that I'll like to share: (22 Nov)
Matt 12:36-37
But I say unto you, That every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment. For by the words thou shalt be justified, and by thy words thou shalt be condemned.
Verse 36 is kind of scary. Imagine every word you muttered, every careless statement you made, you must give account for EVERY one. Verse 37 shows how important words are, they can save your soul or condemn you to eternal death, a destiny. (That's referring to "with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation")
Eph 4:29
Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers.
Our conversation should be exactly like that "edifying" and "ministering grace to the hearers".
Deut 8:3
And he humbled thee, and suffered thee to hunger, and fed thee with manna, which thou knewest not, neither did thy fathers know; that he migh make thee know that man doth not live by bread only, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of the LORD doth man live.
Just as Israelites daily had to go collect manna, so do we Christians have to daily read the Word of God for food, more important than physical food. Jesus forgo his food and went hungry for so many days to spend time in the truth. How many of us would rather eat our food rather than read the Bible for 10 minutes if we knew we won't be able to have either any other time in the day? Yet God's Word is worthy of such devotion as to go hungry for a day. What is a day when our Lord Jesus, our example, went so far as to go 40 days without food? May we "as newborn babes, desire the sincere mild of the word, that ye may grow thereby:" (Mr. Birx, Bible 10 teacher, pointed this out to us)
Luke 16:17
And it is easier for heaven and earth to pass, than one tittle of the law to fail.
I felt this verse was a great encouragement for us as Christians that the Word of God is worth dying for, just like the martyrs of old that went through the stake just to give us the Bible, the Truth, to set us free.
Neh 13:23-24
In those days also saw I Jews that had married wives of Ashdod, of Ammon, and of Moab: And their children spake half in the speech of Ashdod, and could not speak in the Jew's language, but according to the language of each people.
They were not angry about their language but more of their straying from their God, the LORD Almighty. Mr. Birx pointed out that it was not the language but the symbolic meaning of "of the world". How were they supposed to understand God's Word, and to know God if they didn't understand the language the Bible was written in? Are we too so much into the world's language that when we read God's Word we don't understand? Is our minds giving/receiving both filthy and pure words? That cannot happen. The same water cannot be both sweet and bitter. The world's language is filthy, and God's Word is pure. Remember we are to be in the world but not of the world, "this world is not my home, I'm just a passing through..."
