daily devotional for July 10th today's scripture reading will be James 3 verses 1 through 3.
my brethren let not many of you become teachers
knowing that we shall receive a stricter judgment I'm going to stop with that for a minute you know
we who are called to be teachers or preachers whatever the five-fold ministry we need to be
careful that we are teaching what the scriptures say and if you find you know if you've taught
something and the Lord gives you fresh Revelation on it a better understanding greater wisdom
you see that you have made a mistake you've taught in error then you need to repent first to the Lord
and then to your if it's congregation whoever it is that you're teaching you know if it's here on
YouTube channel make that correction just say you know I was wrong this is how I understood it but
the Lord revealed something different to me make that correction so you don't leave people astray
verse 2 for we all stumble in many things if anyone does not stumble in word he is a perfect
man able also to Bridle the whole body indeed we put bits in horses mouths that they may obey us
and we turn their whole body you know as I was reading that I was thinking about how the um
not that I am not a horse I'd love to have a horse I love to ride a horse but I haven't
done that much in my life but you know they're the horse there's the bit and the Bridle and the reins
and they work in tandem they work as really like even those three different pieces they
work together as one unit and depending on how the rider it gives control to the writer and to
the horse because that um bit it fits right under the tongue and when the rider pulls on that on the
rain it pulls it pulls the bit and the Bridle it it turns the head of the horse so the horse knows
which direction to go it also puts pressure on there I thought boy there are times you know a lot
of times that I needed to have a bit and a bridle on my tongue because I've spoken out of turn I've
spoken things that weren't correct but uh you know I was reminded of two famous horses and you'll
probably recognize both their names I'll start with the one that because this one came first in
time and that was Seabiscuit and Seabiscuit and I'm relating this to uh to Christians to people
in general he was a smaller horse and he didn't seem to have it was during depression time he
did not seem to have much potential he was lazy he ate a lot he slept a lot and they
used him as a horse to run alongside he was a small horse but they used him to run alongside
greater horses to kind of like a sparring partner in boxing you know sparring partners they might
be a good boxer but they're really used to firm up and train the greater boxer and that's what
Seabiscuit did they used him to run alongside these other horses so the other horses were to
win and he was basically held back then by pulling the reins they held him back so he didn't win but
he was actually strengthening the other horses but the good news is like the Lord trainer a trainer
came by and saw that this horse had potential and in retraining him they trained him that he
in 1937 War Admiral he was a bigger horse he won the Triple Crown so he run the Kentucky
Derby the Preakness in the Belmont Stakes he was a triple crown winner of 1937 and in a one
a horse or should say two horse competitions just War Admiral and Seabiscuit it was a runoff
with those two and they had really retrained this lazy horse okay just like God can retrain a lazy
Christian if we're willing to work with him with the Holy Spirit like holy spirit being the trainer
and you know what Seabiscuit beat War Admiral that was amazing then the other horse I was reminded
of was Secretariat and I remember watching this in 1973 Secretariat he was just amazing to watch this
horse run just uh Elegance you know just he had such strength and and he was so fast but he won
the Triple Crown he was a bigger horse the owners knew his Potential from the time he was born he
just stood Out Among the rest and the thing is with each of these you know again I am relating
that with a Christian we either know our potential or we don't but either way we need to have a bit
and a bridle on our tongue so that we are going the right direction with the Lord and bridling
our tongue so that we don't speak out of turn but when we do repent quickly and make it right okay
God forgives us so make it right I watched several different Ministries over the years where they've
errored in teaching and some did repent and go the right way and others did not and you know it can
well we'll talk about that probably tomorrow or the next day it can lead people astray
okay till next time be blessed and remember subscribe to our YouTube channel thank you