Speech…confrontation…
Recently I had a confrontation with a local contractor…he had done some work for me in the past and I have since found out that it was done wrong even though it looks great, but it is still wrong…so now it has to be corrected by someone else… as he won’t take responsibility…we had a nice chat…no heated exchange or anything…he walked away without a care in the world…
I do not like confrontation…and can think of a hundred answers/comments after the fact of “what I should have said “…few of which would have been appropriate…so I lay those answers down, knowing that I have peace in my heart…rather than words NOT aptly spoken…
Paul addresses that speech issue in Colossians 4…how we ought to speak…with graciousness…
Thank YOU…
Let your speech always be gracious, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how you ought to answer each person.
Col.4.6
“Give ear, O heavens, and I will speak,and let the earth hear the words of my mouth.
May my teaching drop as the rain,my speech distill as the dew,like gentle rain upon the tender grass,and like showers upon the herb.
For I will proclaim the name of the Lord;ascribe greatness to our God! “The Rock, his work is perfect,for all his ways are justice.
A God of faithfulness and without iniquity,just and upright is he.
Deut.32.1-4
Put away from you crooked speech,and put devious talk far from you.
Prov.4.24
To make an apt answer is a joy to a man,and a word in season, how good it is!
Prov.15.23
The wise of heart is called discerning,and sweetness of speech increases persuasiveness.
Prov.16.21
He who loves purity of heart,and whose speech is gracious, will have the king as his friend.
Prov.22.11
A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in a setting of silver.
Prov.25.11
We put no obstacle in anyone's way, so that no fault may be found with our ministry, but as servants of God we commend ourselves in every way: by great endurance, in afflictions, hardships, calamities, beatings, imprisonments, riots, labors, sleepless nights, hunger; by purity, knowledge, patience, kindness, the Holy Spirit, genuine love; by truthful speech, and the power of God; with the weapons of righteousness for the right hand and for the left; through honor and dishonor, through slander and praise. We are treated as impostors, and yet are true; as unknown, and yet well known; as dying, and behold, we live; as punished, and yet not killed; as sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, yet possessing everything.
2 Cor.6.3-10
But as you excel in everything—in faith, in speech, in knowledge, in all earnestness, and in our love for you—see that you excel in this act of grace also.
2Cor.8.7
Let no one despise you for your youth, but set the believers an example in speech, in conduct, in love, in faith, in purity.
1Tim.4.12
In moments like these…
Gracious Words….devo…
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