IT'S ALL JUST TALK

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You hear them too.

Friends, relatives or neighbors who are constantly telling

you what they are going to do - but it never happens.  It is

just so much talk.  You have heard it so many times that

you could recite it just as well as they do.

And even more in the political realm.

ALL the politicians are telling you what they are going 

to do for you.  How they are going to clean up corruption

or bad situtions and so forth.  But it never happens.  The 

only thing that happens is that you lose more of your 

freedoms and your taxes increase.

Our words do us no good if they are not backed

up by action.  St. James when talking about faith

said what could just as well apply to words we talk.

"My friends, what good is it for one of you to

say that you have faith if your actions do not

prove it? ...... So it is with faith: if it is alone

and includes no actions, then it is dead."

(James 2:14,17 GNT)

Talk is cheap.  Or is it.

Consider this.  One day both you and I are going to 

stand before the God who created us - whether we 

like it or not. Then we are going to give an account of 

our lives.  Every bit of it.

The one who created the heavens and the earth, and gives you life it's self said,

"You can be sure that on the Judgment Day

you will have to give account of every useless

word you have ever spoken.  Your words will

be used to judge you - to declare you either

innocent or guilty."

(Matthew 12:36,37 GNT)

All of that cheap talk may end up coming

at a very high price.

"Everyone must be quick to listen, but slow to speak and slow to become angry"

(James 1:19 GNT)

Solomon the wisest man who ever lived 

gave this advice,

"Think before you speak, and don't

make any rash promises to God.  He

is in heaven and your are on earth,

so don't say any more than you have to."

(Ecclesiastes 5:2 GNT)

Someone said,

"Wisdom has two parts:

1.  Having a lot to say.

2. Not saying it.

Rochefoucauld said,
"As it is the characteristic of great
wits to say much in few words, so 
it is of small wits to talk much and
say nothing."