James 1:19-20 GNT
Remember this, my dear friends! Everyone must be quick to listen, but slow to speak and slow to become angry. Human anger does not achieve God’s righteous purpose.
A grizzled old logger from over 100 years ago wrote,
“When I cut that tree, I heard the whispers of 1000 summers.”
When I read that, I gasped in incense and seethingly thought, oh no! How could you? Why couldn’t you just leave that beautiful old tree alone?
Then I continued to read.
“Inside it had a hollow base. If we had waited, a wind storm surely would have brought it down, and it would have shattered being no use to anyone.”
Instead, the old tree at the end of her lifecycle was harvested to provide board feet for homes. Perhaps she was even used in part to create a chair that has rocked generations to sleep. Her limbs were used for firewood, pencils, and paper. And without her canopy, there was sunlight that a new tree could grow. And that tree would be over 100 years old today.
James 1:19-20 GNT
Remember this, my dear friends! Everyone must be quick to listen, but slow to speak and slow to become angry. Human anger does not achieve God’s righteous purpose.
