8C22.      Sirach 27:4-7.    “So too does one’s speech disclose the bent of one’s mind.”   Our conversational speech often reveals the degree to which we have developed our moral character and virtue.  Our words reveal who we are in the depths of our being.

Luke 6:39-45.  “A good person out of the store of goodness in his heart produces good, but an evil person out of a store of evil produces evil; for from the fullness of the heart the mouth speaks.”  This Scripture screams at us, “What have we stored up in our hearts?”  Have we been living our lives in the bosom of the Holy Spirit or in the flesh of this world?  What is the life we have turned our hearts over to?  What makes our hearts tick?  Jesus also said in Matthew 12:34b, “For from the fullness of the heart the mouth speaks.”

1 Corinthians 15:54-58.  “Be firm, steadfast, always fully devoted to the work of the Lord, knowing that in the Lord your labor is not in vain.”  Living our lives in the presence and power of the Holy Spirit is the “work of the Lord’.  God is our life from which flows the actions and work of our inner being.