Interactions with God #14

My language was not the greatest before I really gave my life to Jesus.  I was not walking around constantly dropping f-bombs, but my normal speech generally contained a certain amount of “colorful” words. 

Somehow after I had the vision, that just didn’t seem to be OK anymore.  But, I did run into “Christians” who did swear.  So I did my thing, I sat down and asked the one who would surely know right from wrong…after all, He is the one defining it.

“Is using swear words OK?”  That is pretty much what I asked.  Now again, I tell you that for a few months when this was all really new, He would respond with chapter and verse.  This time was no different.  His response was 2 Timothy 2:16.

When I looked it up it read:

16 But shun profane and vain babblings: for they will increase unto more ungodliness.

His point was made, so I cleaned up my language from then on.  Have I been perfect?  No, but very few here on FB have ever heard me talk like that since 1984.   In those cases, it was usually when I had lost my temper.  I am not excusing it, but God does forgive when we ask for it.  I asked, and he forgave, so I work to never do it again.

Either way, whether language, action or attitude, I surely do not want increase into greater ungodliness.  No, on the contrary, I want to do those things that increase into greater Godliness.