Thursday, November 22, 2012

Few Words

Ecclesiastes 5:2 KJV
Be not rash with thy mouth, and let not thine heart be hasty to utter any thing before God: for God is in heaven, and thou upon earth: therefore let thy words be few.

The preacher gives some sound counsel to preachers right here. Pastors are given to see it as their place to be the spokesmen of the church. After all, they stand to bring the message of God service after service. But for him to remember that God is in heaven and the preacher is on earth; that serves to keep him humble.

The preacher's own words at church should be few. Rather than filling the congregation's ears with his own thoughts about politics or philosophy or even about theology, the preacher would do best to keep those words but few and fill the congregation's souls with the Scriptures. We must preach the Word and not just preach around the Word. We must give those congregations God entrusts to us, His Word and not our thoughts about His Word. 

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