Everyone be quick to hear, slow to speak and slow to anger

(Audio: Spanish)

SUMMARY: In James 1:18, it says that God causes us to be born by the word of truth so that we may be the first fruits of His creatures. We are not spiritually born of ourselves, but God initiates the process of repentance and approaching Him. As a consequence of God's greatness and sovereignty, we must be sober and measure our words before speaking. We should be quick to hear, slow to speak, and slow to get angry. We should not be too sensitive and take offense easily, but instead, be sure of ourselves and not care about what others say. We should not make promises that we cannot keep and should not let our mouth make us sin. We should not pay attention to everything people say about us, as we also say things about others. Let the water run and do not exhaust ourselves by constantly fighting and confronting everything we hear.

We must be slow to anger and choose our battles wisely. The weaker and more fragile we are, the more we will fight. The devil uses our unaddressed emotions against us and connects with us through anger. We must ask the Lord to deal with our emotions and heal our wounds, and forgive those who have offended us. We must humble ourselves before God and welcome the character of Christ into our lives. We renounce everything that is not of God and declare peace, meekness, humility, and grace over our lives and our community.

Chapter 1 James, beginning with verse 18. It says here: "... God, he, of his will, caused us to be born by the word of truth so that we might be the first fruits of his creatures..."

I was talking about that last time. We talked about every good gift, a generous God who gives us beyond what we sometimes expect, deserve or dare to believe that he can give us. And one of those things that God has done in our lives is precisely to make us be born by the word of truth.