Sermon 23: Keep It To Yourself

You, and each and every person around you, are all involved in picking your ways through your individual paths to Heaven. It’s not easy for any of us. Part of the lessons each of us must learn, before we can accept a well-populated Heaven, is how to peacefully interact with any and every other. Unfortunately, we have found that the easiest way to get people to agree with you is to say something negative. This counter-productive way of bonding promotes complaining and gossiping. If these are bad habits of yours, they can be broken with practice.

You do not need to use other people as a dumping ground for your negative thoughts. If you have an unpleasant or malicious thought flit across your brain, you do not always need to voice it aloud. When something is going wrong for you, you do not need to vent it out to all your friends and co-workers. They don’t need to hear it.

Strive to set an example for breaking the cycle of escalating gloominess. What other people should be hearing from you are uplifting observations about distressing situations. They need someone to steer the direction of the conversation to the cloud’s silver lining. They need to be shown that there’s an up side to everything. They need to be reminded that God’s path toward Heaven is all about achieving peace and tolerance. They need to be reminded of the greatness of all God has created.

Fortunately, though, you do not need to keep everything inside you either. The place to vent is alone with God. God is not only the correct ear in which to voice your complaints, concerns and suspicions, but He is also in the unique position of being able to alleviate them. And He is so easy to get your point across to because He happens to be all-understanding, and all-forgiving, when it comes to the subject of you.

Let God handle all your gripe sessions. He can take it and He can even fix it. He will also offer unfailingly correct guidance. You make sure that you insist on conveying the majority of your outward messages in a positive manner. This will make considerable progress towards straightening and smoothing your own Heavenly path.



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