Bunny Trail

Good day! I’m Duane Matz and this is Today’s Living Word.

 

In my last blog, I found myself reading  about the reign of King Jehoshaphat, which led me to wonder where the phrase, “Jumpin  Jehoshaphat” came from.

It was another one of my many trips down what I call “Bunny trails.”   Just ask any of the ladies in my Monday morning Bible class. We have been going verse by verse through the Book of Genesis, and in two years of study we still have 19 chapters to go!

 

Given the state of our culture and even in the church, most of these bunny trails (topics) are worth examining,

 

One of the good things about bunny trails is the rabbit usually leads the hunter on a giant circle, and  eventually  back to the topic on hand.

 

We have some good lessons coming our way from the story of Jehoshaphat and we will get to them I promise. But before we move on, I want to spend another day talking about “minced  oaths,” and pseudo swear words.

Our world today is being overwhelmed by a tsunami of profanity and even many professing Christians join in the unholy song. 

 

I want to give a shout out today to Dave who commented on my last post with these words, ““profanity is a device that makes ignorance audible.”

 

Talk about hitting the nail on the head, that’s bumper sticker worthy! But be careful it might also serve as an invitation to get you flipped off or your car may be keyed.

 

Words matter, and we would all do well to heed  Col 4:6 Let your speech always be with grace, seasoned with salt, that you may know how you ought to answer each one.

 

I’m Duane Matz and that’s Todays Living Word.