What we say is important?
Our talk should always rise to the level of the Word of God.
Our words are seed planted into other people’s lives. This is why it is important to watch what we say because we can hurt our testimony. Our tongue can be an useful tool or a deadly weapon, depends on how we use them.
We Christians should be known as people who speak positively to others.
How do you come across to those you meet? Are you planting seed or digging a hole?
There was a sermon I heard over a year ago at District Assembly about sowing seeds. It was taken from Matthew 13. The preacher called the sermon, “Crazy Farmer.” I know what you’re saying, “it’s November, It’s late Autumn and winter is around the corner. Why are you talking about planting seeds?”
Starting at Matthew 13:3, “Then Jesus told them many things in parables, saying: ‘A farmer went out to sow his seed.” In verse 4, “As he was scattering the seed, some fell along the path, and the birds came and ate it up.”
In verse 5, “Some fell on rocky places, where it did not have much soil. It sprang up quickly, because the soil was shallow.”
In verse 6, “But when the sun came up, the plants were scorched, and they withered because they had no root.”
In verse 7, “Other seed fell among thorns, which grew up and choked the plants.”
In verse 8, “Still other seed fell on good soil, where it produced a crop-a hundred, sixty or thirty times what was sown.”
You may wondered why would a farmer plant seeds in areas where you cannot grow anything?
Normally a farmer would go and picked rocks to remove them before planting seeds; so they can yield a good crop.
The preacher told this sermon to illustrated the importance of planting seeds. He told how the farmer would go out and scatter seeds wherever they may land.
That is the same with us Christians, we must go out and scatter seeds by witnessing to others. You never know who may come to the Lord.
It takes one to plant, one to water, and one to cultivate.
Who knows, the seeds you have planted may lead someone to the Lord?
You don’t need to be religious. Matter of fact, it’s better you’re not religious . All it takes is to just be there for someone to talk or just listen. Take the time to get to know someone. Who knows, you could be entertaining angels that you may not know about.
Whenever my mom would prepared a meal, she would always prepared extra because you never know who may stopped by. She would even offered them something to eat or something to drink. That’s good hospitality!
Almost 2 years ago, I had an opportunity to plant some seeds. I met an young man named Joey who was different. When I first saw him, he was dressed like a girl. I thought it was strange that someone like him was in a place where he could be harassed. I was concerned about him getting hurt. Then one day, he sat down beside me and offered me a drink of his favorite drink, “WHITE MONSTER” He took a chance on me and we became good friends. A special kind of friend. We hung out together and I made it my job to look after him. We would eat supper together as well. He was abused by his parents, sexually and otherwise. He felt that he was a woman trapped in a man’s body. His female name was Harley. When I wasn’t back yet from work, he would text me and wondered where I was. I have admit I had grown attached to him.
Some people thought I should stayed clear of him and the temptation it could lead to. At that time, I didn’t think nothing of it. I had no idea that I would have grow attach to him.
Even though I had grown attached to him, I wouldn’t have missed the chance of getting to known him. He opened my eyes to people like him. He opened only eyes how we have a tendency of stereotyping others.
As the preacher was preaching on the message of the crazy farmer, I went to the altar. The Lord laid it upon my heart, because I was obedient to God and took a chance on Joey, and scattered some seeds, that the Lord will bless me and moved me onto the next mission field. I didn’t knew it would took a year.
The moral of this: GO OUT AND SPREAD SOME SEEDS!! You’ll never know where the seeds will fall. You never know you could lead someone to the Lord. It may not happen right then. Just to let you know that you planted some seeds. I planted some seeds into Joey’s life. Who knows some days, he could come to accept the Lord because of those seeds I took a chance to plant. Pray that the seeds I planted in Joey will grow spiritually and who knows he may come to the Lord.
Jesus said in John 6:43, “Stop grumbling among yourself.”
In Philippians 2:14 and 15, “Do everything without complaining or arguing, so that you may become blameless and pure, children of God without fault in a crooked and depraved generation, in which you shine like stars in the universe.”
Don’t be the Jonah, when God told him to go to Nineveh. He went the opposite direction because he didn’t want to minister to them. He was judging them harshly and God had another plan. God doesn’t want anyone to perish but have eternal life with Him. When God asked you to do something don’t complain or argue. JUST DO IT!!! If you don’t do it, you’ll miss out of the blessing that God has in stored for you.
How can you be happy? Happy people don’t cheat, happy people don’t lie, they don’t judge or criticized. They don’t hate and steal.
If you noticed, people are not happy. You can see it on social media what is being posted.
As my pastor would say, “JUST SMILE!” You never know what that smile could do. If someone hate you because they don’t like what you are saying or how you look. Don’t get upset about it!
Contrary to what you may have heard, talk is not cheap. We should know that our words are powerful. How are you using your tongue? Are you using it as a weapon or a tool? When we speak the wrong word, it lessens our ability to see and hear the will of God.
I know I talked about planting seeds in this blog; but do you know that the harvest is ripe but the workers are few. We are living in the end time. We don’t know when Jesus will return. It could be any day. What are you doing about it? Are you planting seed like the crazy farmer, hoping for it to take roots? Are you reaping the harvest?
