I have been reading and re reading 2 Peter ch 1 It's slowly but surely sinking into my soul!! It's all good so go read it!
v 5 says Make every effort to add to your faith goodness,and to goodness, knowledge and to knowledge self control well day three of reading that same chapter that last word hit me!
You see I can talk about many things in my life that I need more self control in but God seemed to highlight this word to me in regard to my tongue!!
The image of a gun came to mind of words shooting out of a gun like a bullet and piercing someone's heart with it!
It made me cringe at how many times I have reacted to people with a sarcastic comment or a harsh word without even thinking of how that person would receive it!
I then had an image of a water pistol pop in my head and I thought a water pistol showers out water and usually causes laughter and fun unless you hate getting wet!
The thought came I want to be a water pistol showering blessings of encouragement to people ( this includes my children, if you can't put it into practise at home there is something wrong!,) not be a gun shooting harmful discouragements to people!
So that's my challenge eek now it's down in black and white I have to put it into practise!!!
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