A Brewed Awakening
“Words can be twisted into any shape. Promises can be made to lull the heart and seduce the soul. In the final analysis, words mean nothing. They are labels we give things in an effort to wrap our puny little brains around their underlying natures, when ninety-nine percent of the time the totality of the reality is an entirely different beast. The wisest man is the silent one. Examine his actions. Judge him by them.” Karen Marie Moning
We are all masters of disguise, hiding our true feelings behind words meant to mislead and redirect. We don’t want to be known that intimately, we don’t want all the anger, hurt and jealousy to come pouring out like really bad breath. So we mask our true feelings behind a good perfume of pleasant words, promises and false praise.
“‘These people honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me.” Matthew 15:8
“He does not believe that does not live according to his belief.” Sigmund Freud
Are you prepared to be judged by your words or your actions?
Never start a sentence with “no offense…”
…but sometimes, isn’t it possible that your actions, pure and honest though they be, can be and are misconstrued by others who have a different mind-set and who choose, almost always, to be judgmental and critical of actions they don’t understand and/or that they choose not to understand.
Is it not then, that your words, spoken from the heart in sincerity and with the utmost honesty and vulnerability, demand, for clarity’s sake, to be vocalized? Is it not then, that words need to accompany and clarify actions?
…but then you know…Karen Marie Moning probably has “hit the nail on the head” when she says, “The wisest man is the silent one.”
…silent because he or she knows that “I, the LORD, search all hearts and examine [all] secret motives. I give all people their due rewards, according to what their actions deserve.”
…silent because he or she knows that God is Omniscient and that God is his or her Authority and, therefore, by choice, acts and speaks in accordance with that which, as explained in the scriptures, “is pleasing to and for God,” finding no need to verbally vindicate him or herself to anyone.
It’s a double-edged sword — our speaking in comparison with our choosing silence — isn’t it?
Borrowing from Shakespeare, “To speak or not to speak; that is the question; [that is our quandary].”
In answer to your question: “Are you prepared to be judged by your words or your actions?”
I’m not perfect in the least; as a matter of fact, I am far from being perfect; but according to my Methodist doctrine, I am constantly striving to become perfect as only God’s gift of unconditional and all-sufficient grace will allow and enable; but with that being said as a precursor to my answering of your question: “Yes, I am prepared to be judged BY GOD for my words AND my actions.”