"My dearly loved brothers, understand this: everyone must be quick to hear, slow to speak and slow to anger,.." -James 1:19
During the conversation; as she was talking, all he could think of was what he was going to say next.
I think in todays quest for relevancy, wittyness, and our pursue to impress one another people by our "wisdom" or "knowledge", we have lost a really valuable skill.
Listening.
And within our lack of listening skills just on the horizon is something just as bizzare. I sometimes am guility of this nonsense but am learning to conqour this beast.
They call it "speaking without thinking".
Speaking insenstivily, rudely, angry, etc. Speaking just to sound important, to bombard your point of views, or even just because you find it hard to not voice your opinions.
I am not saying that we should not speak or voice our opinions. But...
Lets be slow to speak. And be considerate of the person or people we are talking to please.
And then we also have...
During the conversation; as she was talking, all he could think of how angry he was becasue of the things she was saying. He was so angry he left the conversation not being abel to help her.."
Many times I see people get so frustrated when all the other person wants to do is express their self, vent, and just be related to.
What I mean is there is times when we let our emotions control how we treat someone. We takes things to personally.
Then we are affected in frustration or anger. Or even worst our "self-righteousness".
One of the things I find myself doing when this happens is I want to control a situation.
Are you a person who is a control freak? What I find is that we need to be compassionate people who will be abel to stand next to someone no matter the circumstance or how they make you feel.
Maybe all that person needs is someone to talk to? So maybe we need to be slow to judge, or be slow to be quickly affected by our emotions, like slow to anger.
....vs. 20-21 ..for man's anger does not accomplish God's righteousness. Therefore, ridding yourselves of all moral filith and evil excess, humbly receive the implanted word, which is abel to save you."
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