We are awaiting the day when our God will say well done, good and faithful servant, enter into the joy of your Lord!
Until that day we cannot judge our own activities by our own measurements and deem them good, unless God has done so.
We must consider our speech as important in our activities. Have we accurately expressed what our intentions are? As a culture we have gotten away from inspecting our hearts through our words.
Looking at my own culture, it seems that African-Americans have used the fact that we were brought from numerous countries in Africa as an excuse to speak and develop our own language. I, myself, am not opposed to Ebonics, in their place. I understand that in the culture of the oppressed there is a need to reserve a secret place of communication where the earthly master cannot enter. I am tremendously impressed when I observe the wisdom of the people that were seen as just slaves.
Still there was accountability in speech in their Ebonics and we must maintain that. "My bad!" "I lied!" Do these terms of speech accurately express our meaning or are they deceptions that the enemy of our souls have injected into our Ebonic language to deceive our souls that we have truly repented when we have not!
Some people seem to say that so much, as though they expect to go to heaven and show God the list of times they confessed out loud, before men and God that they lied and that He will let them into heaven because of their many confessions.
Is that so?
Let us beware that our Heavenly Master represents one of our comerades. That our speech doesn't exclude the Master of our souls from entering into our conversation.
In that case I think "Well said, might be better than Well done?" God's going to say Jesus is the only way in!
God's servants cannot be part of the deceived who need no repentance.
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