May 10 – The Heart Behind the Words

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Welcome to Bible Chat, where we
have devotional conversations

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rooted in Scripture and relevant
for today.

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May 10th.
The heart behind the words.

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Have you ever said something in
the heat of the moment and

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immediately wished you could
take it back?

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Maybe it was a sharp reply to a
parent, a sarcastic comment to a

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friend, or something you typed
online without really thinking.

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We’ve all been there.
And here’s the thing.

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Those moments reveal something
deeper than just a bad day.

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They reveal what’s actually
going on inside our hearts.

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Proverbs chapter 15, verses 28
to 29 puts it plainly.

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The heart of the righteous
ponders how to answer, but the

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mouth of the wicked pours out
evil.

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The Lord is far from the wicked,
but He hears the prayer of the

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righteous.
Did you catch that?

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The righteous person pauses.
They think before they speak,

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not because they’re slow or
unsure, but because they care

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about what their words do to
people.

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And God notices that he draws
close to a heart that’s careful,

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that’s considerate, that’s
rooted in something good.

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Now flip over to 1st Corinthians
chapter 13, one of the most

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famous passages in the Bible,
and you might think it’s just a

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wedding verse, but honestly,
it’s one of the most practical

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guides to everyday life you’ll
ever find.

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Verses four and five say love is
patient and kind.

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Love does not envy or boast.
It is not arrogant or rude.

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It does not insist on its own
way.

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It is not irritable or
resentful.

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And then verse 7 adds love bears
all things, believes all things,

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hopes all things, endures all
things.

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That’s not a soft, sentimental
kind of love.

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That’s a tough daily.
Choose it even when it costs you

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kind of love.
And here’s what makes it so

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real.
It shows up in conversation

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every single day.
You’re in dozens of

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interactions.
A group chat blowing up with

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drama, a classroom argument that
gets personal, a family dinner

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where someone says something
that stings.

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In every one of those moments,
love is either present or it

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isn’t, and the difference is
felt.

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Think about someone in your life
right now.

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Maybe a friend who’s been a
little distant, or a sibling

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who’s been getting on your
nerves, or a classmate you’ve

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been quietly judging.
What would it look like to

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respond to them with patience
instead of frustration?

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With kindness instead of
sarcasm?

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With a belief that sees the best
in them even when they’re not

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showing their best?
It’s not easy.

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Nobody said it was.
But First Corinthians 13 doesn’t

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describe love as a feeling you
either have or you don’t.

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It describes love as a series of
choices.

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Patient.
That’s a choice kind.

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That’s a choice.
Not insisting on your own way.

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That is absolutely a choice, and
often a hard one.

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But each of those choices made
one at a time, shapes you into

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someone whose words actually
carry weight, someone people

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trust, someone who reflects
God’s character in the most

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ordinary moments of life.
And the beautiful thing is, when

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your heart is being shaped by
that kind of love, it changes

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what comes out of your mouth
naturally.

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You don’t have to perform it.
You don’t have to fake it.

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It starts to flow from a place
that’s been quietly transformed

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by spending time with God, by
letting His words sit in your

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heart, by asking Him to make you
more like Him.

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Your words have power.
They can wound or they can heal.

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They can push people away or
draw them closer, closer to you

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and closer to God.
So the real question isn’t just

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what should I say.
The deeper question is, what is

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my heart full of right now?
Because whatever fills it will

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eventually overflow.
Let’s pray.

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Heavenly Father, thank you for
reminding me that love is not

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just a feeling, it’s a way of
living every single day.

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I know my words don’t always
reflect the best of what I want

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to be, and I’m grateful that
Your grace covers those moments.

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Help me to slow down before I
speak.

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Help me to choose patience when
I want to react, kindness when I

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want to be sharp, and humility
when I want to be right.

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Fill my heart so full of your
love that it naturally pours

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into the way I talk to people,
my friends, my family, strangers

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and even people who are hard to
love.

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Guard my tongue and grow my
heart in Jesus name, Amen.

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Bible reading plan.
Proverbs Chapter 15 Verses 28 to

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29 World English Bible The heart
of the righteous weighs answers,

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but the mouth of the wicked
gushes out evil.

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Yahweh is far from the wicked,
but he hears the prayer of the

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righteous.
First Corinthians Chapter 13

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World English Bible If I speak
with the languages of men and of

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angels, but don’t have love, I
have become sounding brass or a

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clanging cymbal.
If I have the gift of prophecy

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and know all mysteries and all
knowledge, and if I have all

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faith so as to remove mountains,
but don’t have love, I am

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nothing.
If I give away all my goods to

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feed the poor, and if I give my
body to be burned but don’t have

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love, it profits me nothing.
Love is patient and is kind.

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Love doesn’t envy.
Love doesn’t brag, is not proud,

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doesn’t behave itself
inappropriately, doesn’t seek

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its own way, is not provoked,
takes no account of evil,

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doesn’t rejoice in
unrighteousness, but rejoices

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with the truth, bears all
things, believes all things,

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hopes all things, and endures
all things.

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Love never fails.
But where there are prophecies,

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they will be done away with.
Where there are various

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languages, they will cease.
Where there is knowledge, it

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will be done away with, for we
know in part and we prophecy in

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part.
But when that which is complete

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has come, then that which is
partial will be done away with.

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When I was a child, I spoke as a
child, I felt as a child, I

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thought as a child.
Now that I have become a man, I

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have put away childish things.
For now we see in a mirror

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dimly, but then face to face.
Now I know in part, but then I

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will know fully, even as I was
also fully known.

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But now faith, hope and love
remain these three.

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The greatest of these is love.
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