Say What We Mean And Mean What We Say

Sunday February 2, 2020

Many of us have been in the company of others who think they know everything but when they open their mouths very little wisdom is detected. Know-it-alls have very little respect for those around them and lie through their teeth to save face when the truth about a situation is exposed. The person who wrote the following Psalm is asking God for help to deal with people like this who lived in his community.

Help, Lord! No one does what is right anymore. Those who are faithful have disappeared from the human race. Everyone tells lies to their neighbors. With their lips they praise others, but they don’t really mean it. May the Lord close all lips that don’t mean what they say. May he stop every tongue that brags. They say, “What we speak with our tongues will win the battle. What we say with our lips will keep us safe. No one will have victory over us.” (Psalm 12:1-4 NIRV)

While living in a dysfunctional lifestyle, we often thought those who tried to help us were cramping our style. We moved away from anyone who spoke to us about doing what was right. We thought most highly of those who were supplying us with the substance we needed to get high or helped us relieve the pain we were suffering. We decided we knew what was best for us and that was the end of any discussion about the harm we were causing ourselves and our loved ones. We lied to others. We made promises we had no intention of keeping. Our self-will brought us to the place where we didn’t know what was right anymore and our life was totally unmanageable.

When we came into recovery, we were broken but may have reasoned that we could still have victory by continuing to do things our way. However, the only sure way to win the battle is by becoming a person who is faithful to God, to others, and to living as the person God created us to be. We need to learn to “say what we mean and mean what we say.” We need to seek God to guide us, and as we do, we will find that He is faithful to keep us safe and give us strength to persevere and be persons who do those things that we say we will do.

Prayer: Heavenly Father, I repent of my arrogance in thinking that my ways are better that Your ways. Today I acknowledge that in You are all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge. Help me to seek Your will and to be a person who faithfully does what I say. Amen

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