Don and David have been encouraging me to update a new post (“Update you blog lar, Pat.”) and leaving me ideas on my chat box and yet I still couldn’t think about what to blog until I read Don’s blog.
Well, what I’m posting is completely different from Don’s latest post on ciggys, drugs and Jack Daniels / Carlsberg / Smirnoff aka alcohol.
Provoke, I name it…. Simply put it, is there anyone who’s been provoking you lately or all the time? If yes, what did you do? Do you keep quiet about it? Do you approach the person and tell him/her off? Do you gossip about it? And then, what happens? Do you let it go? Do you forgive? Do you still talk about it and get all upset even after forgiving and trying to let it go?
We’re not all perfect but we ought to try to be perfect because Jesus called us to. The bible says in Matthew, Jesus instructed his disciple to forgive seventy times seven times. Come on ya’ll… are you gonna start counting how many times you’re gonna be forgiving others?
Trust me, by the time you reach the fifth, you’ll completely forget how times you’ve forgiven.
How about speaking ill of the one you dislike (or who you deemed has provoked you dislike aka hate him/her)? Does that account to back-stabbing?
You see, the reason I’m asking these questions are because I’ve encountered two similar incidents, same gender but different age.
Firstly, at my workplace – a discussion about another colleague (negative of course) by older men.
Second, another discussion about another brother in cell (duh… negative again) by younger boys.
Gee… time sure have change. Women are usually stereotyped to be gossipers and rumour mongler (whatever or however you spell it). But now…. men and boys too! What horror!
In church we speak of unity among brothers and sisters in Christ. The bible teaches to love your neighbour as yourself but this objective will sure be hard to achieve if we can’t control our tongue. Mother use to tell me as I was growing up, “If you have nothing good to say, DON’T say it.”
Well, what I’m posting is completely different from Don’s latest post on ciggys, drugs and Jack Daniels / Carlsberg / Smirnoff aka alcohol.
Provoke, I name it…. Simply put it, is there anyone who’s been provoking you lately or all the time? If yes, what did you do? Do you keep quiet about it? Do you approach the person and tell him/her off? Do you gossip about it? And then, what happens? Do you let it go? Do you forgive? Do you still talk about it and get all upset even after forgiving and trying to let it go?
We’re not all perfect but we ought to try to be perfect because Jesus called us to. The bible says in Matthew, Jesus instructed his disciple to forgive seventy times seven times. Come on ya’ll… are you gonna start counting how many times you’re gonna be forgiving others?
Trust me, by the time you reach the fifth, you’ll completely forget how times you’ve forgiven.
How about speaking ill of the one you dislike (or who you deemed has provoked you dislike aka hate him/her)? Does that account to back-stabbing?
You see, the reason I’m asking these questions are because I’ve encountered two similar incidents, same gender but different age.
Firstly, at my workplace – a discussion about another colleague (negative of course) by older men.
Second, another discussion about another brother in cell (duh… negative again) by younger boys.
Gee… time sure have change. Women are usually stereotyped to be gossipers and rumour mongler (whatever or however you spell it). But now…. men and boys too! What horror!
In church we speak of unity among brothers and sisters in Christ. The bible teaches to love your neighbour as yourself but this objective will sure be hard to achieve if we can’t control our tongue. Mother use to tell me as I was growing up, “If you have nothing good to say, DON’T say it.”
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