The tongue

How our tongues are occupied! They run more quickly than our feet, and carry less, though much mischief sometimes comes from their babble. They are sharper than razors, some of them, and cut deeper than swords, and kindle fire enough to set the world in a blaze.- Charles Spurgeon

James 3:5-125 Even so the tongue is a little member and boasts great things.See how great a forest a little fire kindles! 6 And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity. The tongue is so set among our members that it defiles the whole body, and sets on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire by hell. 7 For every kind of beast and bird, of reptile and creature of the sea, is tamed and has been tamed by mankind. 8 But no man can tame the tongue. It is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison. 9 With it we bless our God and Father, and with it we curse men, who have been made in the similitude of God. 10 Out of the same mouth proceed blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not to be so. 11 Does a spring send forth fresh water and bitter from the same opening? 12 Can a fig tree, my brethren, bear olives, or a grapevine bear figs? Thus no spring yields both salt water and fresh.

When we open our mouths, we can be a positive example to people or we can be a negative. It is scary to think about how powerful the tongue can be. We can use it for good or for evil. We can use it to build someone up or we can use it to tear somebody's life apart. We can use it to spread the Gospel or we can scatter rumors and gossip among others. The tongue has started wars, it has caused peace. You have two choices today when you open your mouth. Which will it be, blessings or cursing? Remember, it only takes a second to say something that may take years to mend! God bless,Dustin

Use your Bible

Perhaps there is no book more neglected in these days than the Bible. I do verily believe there are more mouldy Bibles in this world than there are of any sort of neglected books. We have stillborn books in abundance; we have innumerable books which never see any circulation except the circulation of the butter shop, but we have no book that is so much bought, and then so speedily laid aside, and so little used, as the Bible.-Charles Spurgeon

I never thought about how the Bible is the most published book, but also the most neglected book in the world. So many people by a Bible to put it up on a shelf or on the coffee table as if it is a part of the furniture. As Spurgeon said, "There is enough dust on peoples Bibles that you can right the word damned in it."
Also another quote by Spurgeon,
If my compass always points to the North, I know how to use it; but if it veers to other points of the compass, and I am to judge out of my own mind whether it is right or not, I am as well without the thing as with it. If my Bible is right always, it will lead me right; and as I believe it is so, I shall follow it.
The only way you can tell if a stick is bent is to hold it up to a strait one. The same goes for the world. When we want to know if something is right or wrong we go to Gods word.

In a cotton factory, there was a card on the walls of the workrooms that read: “If your threads get tangled send for the foreman.” One day a new worker got her threads tangled, and she tried to disentangle them, but only made them worse. Then she sent for the supervisor. He came and looked. Then he said to her, “You have been doing this yourself?” “Yes,” she said. He questioned, “But why did you not send for me according to instructions?” “I did my best,” she said. “No, you did not,” the supervisor said. “Remember that doing your best is sending for me!” Jeremiah 33:3, “Call to Me, and I will answer you, and show you great and mighty things, which you do not know.”
Remember, follow God's instructions. Call on Him today!

God Bless,
Dustin

Pray Always

You never heard that a man began to backslide, or that a sober man became a drunkard, through praying too much. Did you ever hear of a person becoming unkind to his wife, ungenerous to the poor, negligent of public worship, or guilty of grievous sin, through being too much in prayer? No; the case is the reverse.-Charles SpurgeonOur thoughts show were our priorities are. We should ask ourselves, what do I think about all day long? Prayer is the most important thing you can do every day. So many people only pray when they need something or come across a difficult time in their lives. As Paul wrote, "we should pray without ceasing". When we don't go to God in prayer we are saying that we can handle our everyday lives on our own. I learn everyday that I need God in every second of my life and without Him I am nothing. God tells us to pray so that we will come to Him and need Him in everything we do in our lives. If you haven't started praying everyday, start today. It is not just something you do, it is a one on one conversation with the one that created you!
1 Thessalonians 5:17
Pray without ceasing.

Awake

When is revival needed? When carelessness and unconcern keep the people asleep. It is as much the duty of the Church to awaken and work and labor for the men and women of this city as it is the duty of the fire department to rush out when the call sounds. What would you think of the fire department if it slept while the town burned? You would condemn them, and I will condemn you if you sleep and let men and women go to hell. The Church of God is asleep today; it is turned unto a dormitory, and has taken the devil's opiates.-Billy Sunday
Billy Sunday did not cut any corners when he preached. We are all guilty of getting in our comfort zones at times. We get to a certain point in our lives when we think everything is just right.
Just like the fire dept. example in this quote. They may have just bought a brand new truck with all the gear to fight any fire they may come across, but when the town catches on fire they don't want to get their new equipment dirty or damaged. So they stay at the fire station and watch the town burn. Sounds like the churches of today if you ask me. We get all kinds of tools to reach the lost but we stay within the four walls of the church to use them. We are told to seek and save but all we do is sit and stare!
We have the greatest weapon there is to save souls, the Holy Spirit of Jesus Christ. People think of God as being great and awesome in church. When people step out of church they must think He becomes smaller. God is the same everywhere, that is what we must realize.

What would you say if a doctor went to medical school all his life but did not help a single patient. That is the church of today, when we only site in our churches and don't go into the world and share the saving Grace of Jesus Christ.
You are the light of the world. A city on a hill cannot be hidden. In the same way, let your light shine before men, that they may see your good deeds and praise your Father in heaven.”- Matthew 5:14,16
God Bless,
Dustin