Family Feuds Just Feeds Fat the Foe

**fennywest** Sat 16 Jun 2012, 9:34 am

Family feuds just feeds fat the foe
Who lurks, unseen in the background
He plays on the field of the mind
With the aim to run all aground.

Give him an inch and he’ll take a mile
Luring you to return fire for fire
As he referees all with a sinister smile
Championing hate and unforgiveness mire.

So now pray for God to guard your lips
To allow only rivers of love and peace
To abound, overflow avoiding a slip
That will blow apart and poison release.

"Lord, make me an instrument of peace and not of war."

36 But I say to you that for every idle word men may speak, they will give account of it in the day of judgment.
37 For by your words you will be justified, and by your words you will be condemned."

Matt12:36-37
3 Set a guard, O LORD, over my mouth; Keep watch over the door of my lips. Ps141:3

29 Let no corrupt word proceed out of your mouth, but what is good for necessary edification, that it may impart grace to the hearers.
30 And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, by whom you were sealed for the day of redemption.
31 Let all bitterness, wrath, anger, clamor, and evil speaking be put away from you, with all malice.
32 And be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God in Christ forgave you. Eph4:29-32

17 Repay no one evil for evil. Have regard for good things in the sight of all men.
18 If it is possible, as much as depends on you, live peaceably with all men.
19 Beloved, do not avenge yourselves, but rather give place to wrath; for it is written, "Vengeance is Mine, I will repay," says the Lord.
Rom12:17-19

©Fenny West2012
https://christian-talk.forumotion.com/t5576-fresh-and-flourishing#10883
http://inspiration4generations.wordpress.com/2011/12/24/journey-of-jesus/