December 15, 2012
If you cannot express yourself well on each of your beliefs, work
and study until you can. If you don’t, other people may miss out on the
blessings that come from knowing the truth. Strive to re-express a truth
of God to yourself clearly and understandably, and God will use that
same explanation when you share it with someone else. But you must be
willing to go through God’s winepress where the grapes are crushed. You
must struggle, experiment, and rehearse your words to express God’s
truth clearly. Then the time will come when that very expression will
become God’s wine of strength to someone else. But if you are not
diligent and say, “I’m not going to study and struggle to express this
truth in my own words; I’ll just borrow my words from someone else,”
then the words will be of no value to you or to others. Try to state to
yourself what you believe to be the absolute truth of God, and you will
be allowing God the opportunity to pass it on through you to someone
else.
Always make it a practice to stir your own mind thoroughly to think
through what you have easily believed. Your position is not really yours
until you make it yours through suffering and study. The author or
speaker from whom you learn the most is not the one who teaches you
something you didn’t know before, but the one who helps you take a truth
with which you have quietly struggled, give it expression, and speak it
clearly and boldly.
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