The
Summer is over, and what a summer it was. I had the chance to read
several books, thanks to my network of people who own books I never
read. Sara and I had the chance to spend some time at camp. We spent
sometime with family. My parents took us to the Corning museum of
glass, and the Strong's museum of play. It really was a good summer,
though we are still searching for where God would have us. Now things
are getting back to normal I should be blogging a bit more frequently.
While off doing summer things I watched a few movies as well. One of the movies I watched was one of those made for TV teen high school movies. The main premise of the movie was that we need to be heard. We live in a day and age where everyone wants to be heard. We have so many different ways for people to speak up and try to be heard. You can tweet, Facebook, Instant Message, Txt, e-mail, snail mail, call, youtube, or blog whatever you want to say. So many words are being used, yet so little is really being said. What is the point in being heard if you aren't really saying anything at all?
When growing up my oldest brother had a few favorite proverbs he liked sharing with me his youngest brother. "Even a fool when he keeps silent is considered wise. When he closes his lips he is considered prudent." [Proverbs 17:28] He also like to say "where words are plenty a fool is sure to be." I think that was my brothers take on Ecclesiastes 5:3 and 10:14. So I have purposed in my heart that if I want people to hear what I am saying I am going to say something worth being heard. I think the greatest compliment I ever received as a preacher was from a retired minister. He said to me he liked hearing me preach because I always had something to say. I noted to him that I never really had anything to say and my only pray as I prepared to preach was that God's word would be spoken today. You see He has something worth saying. I could preach the Bible forever because God's word is worth hearing.
With so many people trying so desperately to be heard, they are saying so much and yet nothing really at all. As you rise up and try to be heard ask yourself, is what you are about to say really worth saying. Does it need to be heard? As a Christian we are called to herald the good news of God. In such a noisy world we need to rise up, and make His message heard.
While off doing summer things I watched a few movies as well. One of the movies I watched was one of those made for TV teen high school movies. The main premise of the movie was that we need to be heard. We live in a day and age where everyone wants to be heard. We have so many different ways for people to speak up and try to be heard. You can tweet, Facebook, Instant Message, Txt, e-mail, snail mail, call, youtube, or blog whatever you want to say. So many words are being used, yet so little is really being said. What is the point in being heard if you aren't really saying anything at all?
When growing up my oldest brother had a few favorite proverbs he liked sharing with me his youngest brother. "Even a fool when he keeps silent is considered wise. When he closes his lips he is considered prudent." [Proverbs 17:28] He also like to say "where words are plenty a fool is sure to be." I think that was my brothers take on Ecclesiastes 5:3 and 10:14. So I have purposed in my heart that if I want people to hear what I am saying I am going to say something worth being heard. I think the greatest compliment I ever received as a preacher was from a retired minister. He said to me he liked hearing me preach because I always had something to say. I noted to him that I never really had anything to say and my only pray as I prepared to preach was that God's word would be spoken today. You see He has something worth saying. I could preach the Bible forever because God's word is worth hearing.
With so many people trying so desperately to be heard, they are saying so much and yet nothing really at all. As you rise up and try to be heard ask yourself, is what you are about to say really worth saying. Does it need to be heard? As a Christian we are called to herald the good news of God. In such a noisy world we need to rise up, and make His message heard.
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