The first thought that comes to me in the morning is usually an answer that I’ve been looking for and wrestling with sometimes the day before and into the night before I give up and go to sleep the night before.
Having dealt with situations that would push me over the edge I’ve discovered a truth that gives me peace in the night.
Before closing out the day I always thank God in advance for answers to the issues that plague my mind for hours on end until I settle down and ask God to help me find an answer to the situations I am dealing with.
Where I am going with what might appear to be an innate stressor common to most of us?
Being joined at the hip we have much in common.
Maya Angelo said “We are more alike than we are different and that we mostly want the same things: a job that pays more than we deserve, a nice house and healthy children.”
This quote may not be verbatim but it is as good as it gets at this wee hour of 3:26 in the morning. After all what do I, what do you expect from me at this croaking hour of the day?
Whatever. It is good to go by what we say for I do know that we better watch what we say because there is power in the tongue.
I have learned to be careful what I say. If I don’t want something bad to happen to me then I sure won’t confess it, aiding and abetting the forces in the universe to wreck our lives.
Why is it that we have so much trouble with the tongue? Your guess is as good as mine but I instinctively know that divine writ is correct when our Creator told us to guard our tongue for it is as a rudder of the ship that guides us through the oceans of life.
Why is it that the tongue so unruly considering that it is so small?
Who knows?
It is a slippery slope that not only acts as the organ that aids us in eating all day long but it also helps issue edicts into existence that can either make or break our lives because “we do get what we say.”
That may be an original thought with me but I kind of doubt it because it has been said by someone that we only have maybe one, two or three original thoughts at the best in our lifetime because that just is ‘’what it is.”
The power of the tongue is in our control. Ir isn’t easy but we can ask God to help us.
The Bible says that we will be judged for every idle word but I don’t want to get into judgment calls. I deal with a God far bigger, wiser and in control of my life that has always loved me far more than I can say comprehend.
He kept His hand upon me when I was going hungry as a child and He got me into a place of safety.
He still does.
I just feel better following my own advice of writing it down for whatever reason.
I was helping my good friend, the late Ken Cochran to find his list of what he calls “Afterthoughts” that he gave as part of a speech at his ninetieth birthday party in 2009.
He had lost that list. He couldn’t find it anywhere when I asked him for a copy that I might duplicate to pass out at an autographing signing event that he would participate in later that day.
It plagued his mind as he looked here and he looked there.
I told him that it would be found, being careful to not talk a bad turn of events into existence.
Whatever I also started looking in my boxes of things at home.
I understand about losing things. I am as good as it gets at misplacing treasures but in looking for those items I’ve found I always find things I wasn’t looking for too.
I also prayed, thanking God in advance that it would be found it is a profound list that I had quoted from memory just the day before in a newspaper column of my own.
Having prayed I felt a peace as I went to sleep that night.
Lo and behold he called me bright and early the next morning and told me when he woke up before dawn remembeomg that he had taken some boxes of papers to the barn when he was bringing order to his personal things.
He was just overjoyed because he had found it.
I gloried with him because I wanted to find the list almost as much as he did because I planned to use it in his upcoming book and articles that were putting together for him.
Finding the list affirmed my gut level belief of we get what we say and above all to lean upon His power to help us find what we are looking for because Jesus is the same yesterday, today and forever and He always gets me to the right place at the right time.
For this conviction I am most grateful as I pillow my head at night knowing who controls my life and orchestrates my steps far better than I can ever do.
It’s now 4:18 in the morning and I’ve written it down!
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