From: Mccarrick Alan D CRPH (MccarrickAD@nswccd.navy.mil)
Date: Mon Jul 14 2003 - 11:16:11 EDT
Wayne wrote:
>Let me suggest humbleness to yield to truth, courage to resist
>fraud and falsehood, a passion for justice, charity to find words that
>build, and wisdom to know when to speak and when to be silent.
>These are the best witness of a heart that is changed and the
>things we should strive for and pray for every single day of our
>lives to be to fulfilled.
I appreciate Wayne's sense of Godly conduct. I am teaching our Adult Sunday school class on Jeremiah, and one of the prophet's pithy passages:
JER 25 "I have heard what the prophets say who prophesy lies in my name. They say, 'I had a dream! I had a dream!'
26 How long will this continue in the hearts of these lying prophets, who prophesy the delusions of their own minds?
27 They think the dreams they tell one another will make my people forget my name, just as their fathers forgot my name through Baal worship.
28 Let the prophet who has a dream tell his dream, but let the one who has my word speak it faithfully. For what has straw to do with grain?" declares the LORD .
29 "Is not my word like fire," declares the LORD , "and like a hammer that breaks a rock in pieces?
We do not seek to silence those voices, but rather continue to speak for God faithfully trusting God truth to prevail on its own merits.
Al McCarrick
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