Weekly Devotional

8/25/2004

Imagine what the world would be like without communication. A silent gloomy place!
Praise the Lord for the ability to express oneself through speech.
With it we can share our feelings to one another, educate, negotiate peace treaties, cry out to God. There are a million things we can achieve with it.

It's too bad many of us choose to be silent while we should be talking things over with each other. Many relationships have stranded because people just ran away from confronting the situation.
Things get clearer when we talk about them. Sometimes it's not as bad as it seems to be, once you talk things over. Talk, talk, talk! I cannot emphasize it enough.
You have to tell the other person what is bothering you or tell them you love them; people cannot read each others mind, you know.

Nowadays it's easy to have long distance conversations and the internet is a real hype.
Everybody is chatting with everybody.
I do have to admit that I feel uncomfortable talking to a total stranger and I do not know what to talk about.
So I just don't even try it. Sorry to all you MSN fans!
Talking to someone I know is more fun.

But it's not always funny on the internet. People often get carried away and start romantic conversations with different persons.
It seems harmless, but in the end it can be very painful.
Our hearts were not meant to be divided in love. It's ok to have a lot of friends, but friendship is something totally different than love.
You cannot play with people's feelings. Love is a sacred feeling between only two persons.

If you have romantic conversations with someone else you are in fact betraying your loved one even if you are not married.
If you gave your heart to someone you should not flirt with other people.
Tell other guys or girls you are in love with someone else and want to be true to that person. If you cannot, then you're not really in love and you should be honest to your 'loved' one about it.

I was never in the dating stuff after I got saved by Jesus. I always thought that if you give your heart and your kisses to someone, you cannot break up and then give it to someone else again. I felt it would defile my heart and body. Imagine dating ten guys/girls, every one of them would have kissed your lips making you seem like a flirt.

The Lord wants us to be holy and blameless. Our body and mind should be sanctuaries of the Holy Spirit of God.
The world indulges in dating; we should indulge in holiness waiting for God to lead us to our one true love.

God spoke and the world came into existence.
By talking we can achieve al lot of good things for we were made in the image of God.
So talk to each other, tell them what you feel, or want.
You'll be surprised to see how things can work out for the good.
In any case never be silent. Only the dead are silent. And that is just how you feel on the inside when you remain silent.

But we were made alive in Christ, speaking our way out of troubles through faith in Him who said on the cross; “ It is finished ”
Only three words, but they spoke Gods new creation into life; the bride of Christ!

Let's talk to Him, and to each other in the heavenly language of Gods love!

Love Monique