Week 7: Developing Character
Do not waste time speculating on what may go wrong.
Proverbs 14: 22-30
Evil will always talk too long if you stop to listen. Besides murmuring and worrying allows for a negative confession of faith to be sown into your life. Even honest assessments of people can turn into condemnations when we spend our time speculating and predicting what dumb thing they may do next. Whatever it may turn out to be, it won’t be as bad as us planting the evil seeds of unbelief for them to harvest.
Outwardly, abide by the old rule: if you can’t say anything good, don’t say anything at all. Inwardly, how can your prayers and faith change towards what you expect God to accomplish in others? Do you not know the very act of interceding implies that a change in others awaits the change in your praying? How will your praying and speaking change?
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