Papa took me to school the other day.
I was driving somewhere or the other,
minding my own business chugging down the freeway on cruise control.
I was thinking about stuff. I do that.
Along comes this little white sports
car; it passed me, and pulled right in front of me and slowed down,
not a lot, but enough that I needed to drop out of cruise control and
change lanes. So I did.
Then it sped up again, pulled in front
of me again, and slowed down again. I wrestled with the temptation to
say some things, but about that time it turned off onto the exit
lane. I wrestled some more, and George Carlin’s quote came to mind
(“Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an
idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac?”).
I understand that Carlin was describing
human judgmental human nature, not human driving, so I decided not to
call the driver of the white car any sort of names; I recognized that
whatever things I called him would function as a curse, cuz words do
that, so I restrained myself. That’s not Dad’s way. I just kept
driving. No big deal.
It was then I “heard” a video game
“be-doop” noise in my spirit, and had the sense that I’d just
“leveled up.” OK. That was interesting.
“Now I can trust you with authority
in your words more, Son.”
Wait, what? That was a test? I had no
idea!
I had a million questions, but he was
patient with me. (That’s not actually uncommon.)
He reminded me of the parable of the
Talents and its lesson: if I’m faithful with whatever he gives me
responsibility for, the reward is more of it, and specifically more
authority in the Kingdom (Matthew 25: “I will make you ruler over
many things!”).
He explained that the principle was
true with my words as well. As I’m faithful with using my words in
ways that extend and expand the Kingdom, I’ll find that my words
will have more effect.
I thought you might enjoy sharing my
lesson here.
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