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Yes or No
Jesus challenges us to mean what we say. Religious jargon and trite sayings are useless.
It is the power of the risen Lord and Savior that means something. Jesus challenges us to understand what action God wants us to take not say some religious saying. The action Jesus took was always specific. He healed the blind but never exactly the same way.
God’s goal for us is that we speak plainly with the use of religious jargon.
May I live the life Jesus wants me to every day. May my life speak his power.
“And don’t say anything you don’t mean. This counsel is embedded deep in our traditions. You only make things worse when you lay down a smoke screen of pious talk, saying, ‘I’ll pray for you,’ and never doing it, or saying, ‘God be with you,’ and not meaning it. You don’t make your words true by embellishing them with religious lace. In making your speech sound more religious, it becomes less true. Just say ‘yes’ and ‘no.’ When you manipulate words to get your own way, you go wrong. Matthew 5:33-37
One of the things that has always bothered me is the signs people will hold up on the streets as they ask for help. At the bottom they always say “God Bless”. It is more a ploy to impart guilt or “USE” God to get what they want and many do not even really know what it means or entails, or even want to hear about Him. Great post Michael!
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