Sweet Sounds From Heaven

Misunderstandings can happen with very little effort. It’s just a matter of hearing what we think someone is saying. Communications are critical in our lives and when we misunderstand what we think someone is saying, life can be stressful. It may create anger or resentment, but at a minimum, it will open the door for confusion and every evil work. Relationships can be destroyed by misunderstandings.

Recently I retrieved a phone call from my message machine that confused me. The call went something like this: “Sandy, Tracy asked me to call you and let you know she is still working on your CD’s and she has not forgotten you. She thinks she has found the solution and will get back with you shortly.” I replayed the message several times, all the while I’m thinking, what is Tracy doing with my CD’s? I didn’t ask her to do anything with my CD’s.

Just before I decided to call the bank to speak with Tracy ~ revelation!. Another Tracy who helps me with my computer had taken 2 CD’s. I had asked her to convert them to another format. Since that happened back in July, I had nearly forgotten and definitely given up on the computer Tracy. Just a simple misunderstanding like CD’s, whether compact disc or certificate of deposits can make us scratch our heads.

Words are powerful and definitely impact our thinking. We not only have to guard our hearts, but our minds, our ears and our words as well.

Psalms 19:14 Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in thy sight O lord, my strength, and my redeemer. Psalms 34:13 Keep your tongue from evil and your lips from speaking guile. Psalms 141:3 Set a watch, O Lord before my mouth; keep the door of my lips. Psalms 139:23-24 Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me and know my thoughts: and see if there be any wicked way in me and lead me in the way everlasting. Psalms 10:17 Lord, thou hast heard the desire of the humble; thou will prepare their heart, thou wilt cause thine ear to hear. Proverbs 29:11 A self-confident fool utters all his anger, but a wise man keeps it back and stills it. Matthew 11:15 He who has ears to hear, let him be listening and consider and perceive and comprehend by hearing.

I know this is a large mix of scriptures, but it is vitally important that we realize the ears, mouth, and the mind all work together to help us or hurt us in communications and relationships. And these last two are champions: Proverbs 23:7 For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he. Jeremiah 17:9 The heart is deceitful above all things and desperately wicked; who can know it.

Even after we are born again and are new creatures in Christ, we have the tendency to look at others through a magnifying glass and look at ourselves through rose colored glasses. God, please help us all to be better communicators, and be swift to hear accurately, slow to speak and slow to wrath in Jesus’ Name. Thank You!! Amen.

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