Assumptions- truth or lie?

Just this week, I found myself being the “victim” of someone’s assumptions.

Now, it wasn’t something of which I worried or lost sleep due to its nature.

Not a fun place to be.

Yet, because God doesn’t waste one single thing in His economy, God had a lesson for me in it.

Someone who really didn’t know anything about me felt the freedom to express an offensive statement that in their perception was reality. Yet if this person knew me, that statement couldn’t have been further from the truth.

This person made a judgment call based on what she “thought” she knew. SHE.HAS.NO.CLUE.

So it got me thinking……

How many times in my life do I “assume” something about someone that in reality, is flat out judgment?

How many times do I assume that I “know” the truth yet long to bring that person down because of unresolved hurts or pain from the past?

How many times do I let those “assumptions” that are floating in my head, come out in the words of my mouth, and actually tear down the person’s reputation, mind, and person?

The truth is- A LOT.

For out of the overflow of the heart, the mouth speaks. Matthew 12

OUCH.

My goal, my life ambition, my sole focus:

….so that the body of Christ may be built up, until we all reach unity in the faith & in the knowledge of the Son of God, becoming mature, attaining to the whole measure of the fullness of Christ

. Ephesians 4

So, my prayer for you and me today comes from the very first bible verse I learned as a child:

May the words of my mouth and the meditations of my heart be pleasing to you, O Lord, My Rock, my Strength, and my Redeemer.  Psalm 19:14

Lord, open my mouth today to only speak words of truth, kindness, blessing, and those words that only emulate your love.