Language is the power to communicate. Words are bred out of languages and may share common roots. Some languages / word may be completely derived out of others. Such is also the case with dialects.
Language is the capability of the mind to process the feeling and the emotions of the heart and spirit and present it in a form easily grasped by another being, because language / words connect with the basic sense (hearing) of a human being.
Man’s word is deeply influenced by the state of his heart and the words describe the deep functions and the scheming’s of his heart.
We as Christians are supposed to be careful of what we speak, what we think, and what we plan in our hearts. One of the most common phrases used by believers is (in multiple variants):
· The Lord gave me a good job, and thus I want to thank Him.
Or,
· I want to thank the Lord because He gave me a good job.
So, don’t these statements look conditional? This is normal human tendency.
Let’s see what David says:
“The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want.”
Notice the ‘fullstop’ at the end of the verse? This is not a conditional statement. It’s an absolute truth expresses by the psalm writer. This is based on is daily experience with the Lord. What about us? Even after multiple experiences of His goodness, love, and care we still bind our response to God with multiple conditions and constraints.
It is true that David claims the Lord’s goodness and care in the following verses, but none of this is influencing the primary statement in the first verse. Remember, Shadrak, Meshak , Abednego – who said “We know or Lord is capable of taking us out of this situation, but even if He doesn’t, we will only serve Him. (rephrased)”
This type of change in our language (which is an expression of our heart, processed by our mind) is experienced after getting a daily touch of the “coal form the altar”. Remember Isaiah? He cried, ‘Woe is me, for I’m a man of unclean lips’ (after he saw the vision of the Lord). Isaiah, the prophet, Unclean lips? Doesn’t sync, right?
This touch of the burning coal from the altar, signifies the pain (burning coal is no soothing balm for the lips, right?). It signifies burning; burning away the flesh, the fleshly aspects, and control of the flesh. Sounds familiar to ‘Mortify the Flesh and its deeds’.
Now let’s look at the delivery mechanism: the tongue (James 3: 5-9). These verses are enough and self-explanatory.
In closing, 1 Cor 13, speaks of true love – which is the origin of all good; loving each other, loving each other in the church, loving each other in a family, loving your friends, loving your relations, loving your spouses, loving people with whom you are intending relationship. This is the love of God expressed through Christ into our hearts and overflowing from our hearts…
Language is the capability of the mind to process the feeling and the emotions of the heart and spirit and present it in a form easily grasped by another being, because language / words connect with the basic sense (hearing) of a human being.
Man’s word is deeply influenced by the state of his heart and the words describe the deep functions and the scheming’s of his heart.
We as Christians are supposed to be careful of what we speak, what we think, and what we plan in our hearts. One of the most common phrases used by believers is (in multiple variants):
· The Lord gave me a good job, and thus I want to thank Him.
Or,
· I want to thank the Lord because He gave me a good job.
So, don’t these statements look conditional? This is normal human tendency.
Let’s see what David says:
“The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want.”
Notice the ‘fullstop’ at the end of the verse? This is not a conditional statement. It’s an absolute truth expresses by the psalm writer. This is based on is daily experience with the Lord. What about us? Even after multiple experiences of His goodness, love, and care we still bind our response to God with multiple conditions and constraints.
It is true that David claims the Lord’s goodness and care in the following verses, but none of this is influencing the primary statement in the first verse. Remember, Shadrak, Meshak , Abednego – who said “We know or Lord is capable of taking us out of this situation, but even if He doesn’t, we will only serve Him. (rephrased)”
This type of change in our language (which is an expression of our heart, processed by our mind) is experienced after getting a daily touch of the “coal form the altar”. Remember Isaiah? He cried, ‘Woe is me, for I’m a man of unclean lips’ (after he saw the vision of the Lord). Isaiah, the prophet, Unclean lips? Doesn’t sync, right?
This touch of the burning coal from the altar, signifies the pain (burning coal is no soothing balm for the lips, right?). It signifies burning; burning away the flesh, the fleshly aspects, and control of the flesh. Sounds familiar to ‘Mortify the Flesh and its deeds’.
Now let’s look at the delivery mechanism: the tongue (James 3: 5-9). These verses are enough and self-explanatory.
In closing, 1 Cor 13, speaks of true love – which is the origin of all good; loving each other, loving each other in the church, loving each other in a family, loving your friends, loving your relations, loving your spouses, loving people with whom you are intending relationship. This is the love of God expressed through Christ into our hearts and overflowing from our hearts…
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