How's your life?

Post this at all the intersections, dear friends: Lead with your ears, follow up with your tongue, and let anger straggle along in the rear. God’s righteousness doesn’t grow from human anger. So throw all spoiled virtue and cancerous evil in the garbage. In simple humility, let our gardener, God, landscape you with the Word, making a salvation-garden of your life. James 1:19‭-‬21 MSG

check out the first instruction: everyone is on notice. I am warned on the proper use of the senses and parts i have been given. I do not know why some of the parts are in pairs, whilst some are single, but today's extract states something fundamental: God does not waste resources. I was given two ears to aid my hearing, but today's extract advises me to lead with them. if the ears are to lead, i would speak less and listen more. My words will be measured to full effect. The ears lead, the tongue follows. When this is the case, anger will definitely be way far back.

What makes today's extract even more potent is the fact that God's perfect will can never be achieved in an environment where the above is not in place. It has never been about high walls or overflowing pews, but a life that has been fully surrendered to God. God wants to work a good work in us, because when he is through with us, men will see his glory in us and glorify Him. We are his garden, and he is the meticulous gardener who will prune, cut, chisel and fashion us into what he can use.

The person is the Word and the instrument of cleansing is the Word. The end result is salvation for the individual, and impact on the world. Am i totally surrendered? His time of favour is here.