Swearing Stunts Spiritual Progress

Swearing

Stunts Spiritual Progress

So you can follow the crowed with polluted language     

     venting your emotional frustration

Or, you can choose wisdom and find spiritual growth to give you the real power     

to overcome your emotions and the situations of life

If you choose the latter you will be looked up to

Remember the most important thing for you and others is

Spiritual Progress

Stunts Spiritual Progress

Talk, we all do it.

It is a gift from God.

 Think about life without the ability to talk.

Talk is communication;

 we do it with words and jesters.

They say “sticks and stones can break

my bones but words will never hurt me”.

This is so far from the truth.

Words have power and all of us

have been hurt and helped by words.

So it is no wonder God has given us a lot

of instructions in His Word about our talk.

One of those places is Ephesians 4:29 AMP

Let no foul or polluting language, nor evil word nor unwholesome or worthless talk [ever] come out of your mouth, but only such [speech] as is good and beneficial to the spiritual progress of others, as is fitting to the need and the occasion, that it may be a blessing and give grace (God's favor) to those who hear it.  Foul, polluting, evil, unwholesome or worthless come out of your mouth.

So what should come out of our mouth?

What is good and beneficial to the spiritual progress of others?

There is nothing more important than spiritual progress.

Spiritual progress always develops us

and others to handle life’s situations.

Spiritual progress only comes as favor is extended.

Our talk should always focus on

the spiritual progress of others.

This scripture says…

 “as is fitting to the need and the occasion”

When you have an occasion, a situation, that is

emotionally troubling you, what do you need?

You don’t need a bunch of swearing of

unwholesome and worthless words.

What you need is wisdom.

Think about the people you would go to for help.

The person who does not control their

emotions uses swearing as a release to their pain.

  

Or, would you confide in the person

whose speech is seasoned and controlled.

You may not have thought about it but swearing is

more than offensive it causes you to lose credibility.

Swearing may make you think you are

tough, you may put on a façade and

give the illusion of control and strength.

But swearing only releases pressure

from within us, an uncontrolled pressure.

It is not good for our feelings to build

to a place where we cannot handle them.

Those pressures can build slowly but

most of the time that pressure is

like a short fuse to a keg of dynamite.

    Swearing keeps us from spiritual progress.

Spiritual progress comes from wisdom.

    

James 3 tells who is wise and

understanding and who is not.

Who can help us progress spiritually so we

can handle every occasion we face in life.

 

There is an earthly wisdom and

it is infiltrated with evil practices.

But the wisdom that comes from heaven is first of all pure; then peace-loving, considerate, submissive, full of mercy and good fruit, impartial and sincere. Peacemakers who sow in peace raise a harvest of righteousness.

So you can follow the crowd with polluted

language venting your emotional frustration.

Or, you can choose wisdom and find spiritual

growth to give you the real power to

overcome your emotions and the situations of life.

If you choose the latter you will be looked up to.

Remember the most important thing for you and others is…

Spiritual Progress

Scripture Reading

Ephesians 4:29 AMP

29 Let no foul or polluting language, nor evil word nor unwholesome or worthless talk [ever] come out of your mouth, but only such [speech] as is good and beneficial to the spiritual progress of others, as is fitting to the need and the occasion, that it may be a blessing and give grace (God's favor) to those who hear it.

James 3:13-18 NIV

13 Who is wise and understanding among you? Let him show it by his good life, by deeds done in the humility that comes from wisdom . 14 But if you harbor bitter envy and selfish ambition in your hearts, do not boast about it or deny the truth. 15 Such "wisdom " does not come down from heaven but is earthly, unspiritual, of the devil. 16 For where you have envy and selfish ambition, there you find disorder and every evil practice.

17 But the wisdom that comes from heaven is first of all pure; then peace-loving, considerate, submissive, full of mercy and good fruit, impartial and sincere. 18 Peacemakers who sow in peace raise a harvest of righteousness.

Swearing Control

Swearing

Control

As great as our emotions are they need to be controlled and work together with our God given ability to reason and use common sense

  When it comes to our emotions our first response is generally our worst response

We all need time to think and process emotions

The Bible says

My dear brothers, take note of this:

Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry, for man's anger does not bring about the righteous life that God desires.

Therefore, get rid of all moral filth and the evil that is so prevalent and humbly accept the word planted in you, which can save you. James 1:19-21

Swearing

Control

Profane words have a direct line to our emotions.

They are a spontaneous reflection of strong

emotional states, like anger, fear or passion.

They are also unequaled in their capacity to inflict

emotional pain and incite violent disagreement.

In short, bad words are powerful—emotionally,

physiologically, psychologically and socially.

Profanity is powerful, and it

behaves differently from other types of language.

For some, swear words are rare.

For others, like a friend I used to work with

every sentence had one to four “F” words.

For him they were filler words like

some of us who use the word “and” & “so”.

He told me he could control his profanity

and said he did when around his kids, but

felt no need to control his tongue at work

and other places away from children.

I did doubt his ability to control

because he used no control at work.

This person got into a lot of fights because it was

not just his tongue he did not control, but his emotions.

It became clear to me that the profanity from his

tongue was just a release of uncontrolled emotions within.

Doctors tried to help him with drugs so he could

better control the lack of controlling his emotions.

We are becoming a society that expresses our emotions.

The other day I was standing in the street

and I heard a loud voice inside a house.

The loud voice was coming from

a father swearing at his adult child.

I know this man, he is a hard man to logically

have a conversation with when he disagrees.

He becomes illogical and allows his emotions

to threaten like a dog who barks.

When our feelings of anger, fear

or passion stir in our emotions…

Those feeling are hard to deal with.

Some of us bottle it up and others erupt.

Both types of people are in emotional

pain and will inflict emotional pain.

So what is the answer?

God made us with emotions but

He did not make us emotional.

Emotions are good because they bring out passion,

gives us the ability to fear danger, and hate wrong.

As great as our emotions are, they need to

be controlled and work together with our God

given ability to reason and use common sense.

  When it comes to our emotions, our first

response is generally our worst response.

We all need time to think and process emotions.

The Bible says…

My dear brothers, take note of this:

Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry, for man's anger does not bring about the righteous life that God desires.

Therefore, get rid of all moral filth and the evil that is so prevalent and humbly accept the word planted in you, which can save you.

James 1:19-21

If you are the type of person who emotionally

erupts, find ways to slow down.

Be slow to speak.

 Take time to think.

Be quick to listen, ask the other person to

repeat themself or to explain it another way with

an attitude that shows you want to understand.

Remember it does not matter whether the other

person is right or wrong, what matters is under-

standing so you are both working on the same issues. 

It is your choice…

 You can let your emotions speak

and sound like a barking dog.

Or, you can in humility seek

wisdom for the best outcome.

God promises to give wisdom to anyone who asks.

Scripture Reading

James 1:19-21 NIV

19 My dear brothers, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry, 20 for man's anger does not bring about the righteous life that God desires. 21 Therefore, get rid of all moral filth and the evil that is so prevalent and humbly accept the word planted in you, which can save you.

James 1:2-8 NIV

2 Consider it pure joy, my brothers, whenever you face trials of many kinds, 3 because you know that the testing of your faith develops perseverance. 4 Perseverance must finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything. 5 If any of you lacks wisdom , he should ask God, who gives generously to all without finding fault, and it will be given to him. 6 But when he asks, he must believe and not doubt, because he who doubts is like a wave of the sea, blown and tossed by the wind. 7 That man should not think he will receive anything from the Lord; 8 he is a double-minded man, unstable in all he does.