Speak Up and Out!

If repetition is the best teacher, Mr. Bill and I are real educators!  Most of our conversations with one another [these days] involve one or more of these phrases: what did you say,  will you repeat that, I can’t hear you, and eventually … never mind.

 

How important is it that you repeat yourself?  God thinks it’s very important: “Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God, the LORD is one.  You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might.  And these words that I command you today shall be on your heart. You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise.” (Deuteronomy 6:4-7).  Being diligent in something sounds pretty important to me!  If Mr. Bill didn’t ask me to repeat myself – just said “never mind,”  well, we’d probably stop talking to one another!  The telling and re-telling of God’s faithfulness and goodness from generation-to-generation was especially important before we had the written word.  Reading the Bible is critical to Christian maturity, however, testifying to one another should not be neglected.  What a wonderful season of Thanksgiving to speak words of gratitude!  Use words of testimony to God’s awesome goodness this week … Speak up and out!