JESUS said if you want to have great communication you’ve got to guard your heart. it’s one of the keys. JESUS said that words are never a slip of the tongue, they’re always an overflow of the heart. that’s what he meant when HE said, the mouth speaks the things that are in the heart. matthew 12.34 (ncv),
i may not have wanted to say it, but i felt it or i wouldn’t have said it. communication starts with what i think and what i feel. if i guard that, i’ll talk in a better way.
do you ever let your thoughts leak out into your words? you didn’t mean to. you weren’t going to say it but you got angry or something happened and it just came out.
we’ve all done that. that’s what JESUS is talking about. in fact, JESUS said it’s inevitable. eventually it’s going to happen. part of great communication is guarding your heart. telling yourself, “if i think it, i’m eventually going to say it.”
the truth is, for many of us, we will never experience, in the way we communicate, a real change in our relationships until we’ve had a change in heart because that’s where it begins.
just a thought from the front porch…
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