Does your internet profile match your real life?

Posted on 29. May, 2009 by John in Christianity, Everything

Jordan and I were talking today and the subject of “internet profiles” came up. It got me wondering… “does my internet profile match my real life profile?”

I hope so. Does yours?

Some scripture to ponder…
Matthew 5.37

Let what you say be simply Yes or No; anything more than this comes from evil.

Psalm 19.14

Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart
be acceptable in your sight,
O LORD, my rock and my redeemer.

James 3.1…

1 Not many of you should become teachers, my brothers, for you know that we who teach will be judged with greater strictness. 2 For we all stumble in many ways, and if anyone does not stumble in what he says, he is a perfect man, able also to bridle his whole body. 3 If we put bits into the mouths of horses so that they obey us, we guide their whole bodies as well. 4 Look at the ships also: though they are so large and are driven by strong winds, they are guided by a very small rudder wherever the will of the pilot directs. 5 So also the tongue is a small member, yet it boasts of great things. How great a forest is set ablaze by such a small fire! 6 And the tongue is a fire, a world of unrighteousness. The tongue is set among our members, staining the whole body, setting on fire the entire course of life, and set on fire by hell. 7 For every kind of beast and bird, of reptile and sea creature, can be tamed and has been tamed by mankind, 8 but no human being can tame the tongue. It is a restless evil, full of deadly poison. 9 With it we bless our Lord and Father, and with it we curse people who are made in the likeness of God. 10 From the same mouth come blessing and cursing. My brothers, these things ought not to be so. 11 Does a spring pour forth from the same opening both fresh and salt water? 12 Can a fig tree, my brothers, bear olives, or a grapevine produce figs? Neither can a salt pond yield fresh water.

Boy that was heavy, so take it how you may.
I encourage you to pray for those closest to you that their yes be yes and their no be no because this is an important part of the Christian journey. I find myself continually struggling to remember just how powerful the tongue is, so this was a good reminder for me.

Lord, please continue to raise up a generation of men that go against the mainstream, challenging each other to be like Christ. Though it is difficult to understand Your ways oh Lord open our eyes and hearts to understand. Keep us from the deception of the enemy.

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