Out of the Overflow
For Christmas we received a few new CDs for the kids. Seeds Family Worship puts scripture to music and some of it is quite catchy. The kids already have their favorites.
This song has been running around in my mind for several days:
I know this verse. We've memorized this verse. The passage goes on to talk about good and evil stored up in the heart. I know that too. I understand the message. But this week, as the soundtrack played in my mind, I began to think about the words I say and what my mouth speaks and what that has to say about the overflow of my heart.
I am not prone to vulgarities. Cuss words do not zip to the tip of my tongue. "Bad words" do not "slip out." I just wasn't raised that way. That is not my struggle.
And because I am not typically tempted by profanities I have felt removed from the implications of this passage.
So I began observing the words I do speak. What do I say in frustration, or at dinner time, or on a random Tuesday afternoon, or while sitting at the lunch table, or when asked to play or watch or get...again. When I think about the things I say I am left to ponder. What is stored in my heart?
Because what comes out of my mama mouth is this: No. Not right now. My hands are busy. In a minute. Go play. Stop. Give me just a second. No you may not.
More often than anything else, I say No.
So I am truly searching and pondering and probing my own heart to try and discover the root of this problem. I do believe it is a problem! And I am wondering what in my heart is overflowing to be a No.
At the core I need more Yes. And truthfully I don't know how to get it.
This song has been running around in my mind for several days:
Out of the overflow of the heart
the mouth speaks
the mouth speaks
Matthew 12:34
I know this verse. We've memorized this verse. The passage goes on to talk about good and evil stored up in the heart. I know that too. I understand the message. But this week, as the soundtrack played in my mind, I began to think about the words I say and what my mouth speaks and what that has to say about the overflow of my heart.
I am not prone to vulgarities. Cuss words do not zip to the tip of my tongue. "Bad words" do not "slip out." I just wasn't raised that way. That is not my struggle.
And because I am not typically tempted by profanities I have felt removed from the implications of this passage.
So I began observing the words I do speak. What do I say in frustration, or at dinner time, or on a random Tuesday afternoon, or while sitting at the lunch table, or when asked to play or watch or get...again. When I think about the things I say I am left to ponder. What is stored in my heart?
Because what comes out of my mama mouth is this: No. Not right now. My hands are busy. In a minute. Go play. Stop. Give me just a second. No you may not.
More often than anything else, I say No.
So I am truly searching and pondering and probing my own heart to try and discover the root of this problem. I do believe it is a problem! And I am wondering what in my heart is overflowing to be a No.
At the core I need more Yes. And truthfully I don't know how to get it.
For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, whom we proclaimed among you...
was not Yes and No, but in him it is always Yes.
For all the promises of God find their Yes in him.
That is why it is through him that we utter our Amen to God for his glory.
2 Corinthians 1:19-20 ESV
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