Friday, 4 October 2024

Trip Up

October 5th 

WORDS CAN’T BE UNSAID 

“Better to trip with the feet than with the tongue.” —ZENO, QUOTED IN DIOGENES LAERTIUS, LIVES OF THE EMINENT PHILOSOPHERS, 7.1.26 

You can always get up after you fall, but remember, what has been said can never be unsaid. Especially cruel and hurtful things.

I Have Become All Things To All People

19 Though I am free and belong to no one, I have made myself a slave to everyone, to win as many as possible. 20 To the Jews I became like a Jew, to win the Jews. To those under the law I became like one under the law (though I myself am not under the law), so as to win those under the law. 21 To those not having the law I became like one not having the law (though I am not free from God’s law but am under Christ’s law), so as to win those not having the law. 22 To the weak I became weak, to win the weak. I have become all things to all people so that by all possible means I might save some. 23 I do all this for the sake of the gospel, that I may share in its blessings.

Lean Not On Your Own Understanding

The other day I had written that I need to not lean on my own understanding. So I must have been right because God confirmed it today in my ...