Job 19:4 – And if indeed I have erred, my error remains with me.
What really hurts is when you throw the ball, usually with a lot of zip, and it goes where you never intended. Attending the Ranger game recently with friends, we saw two or three of those throws. Usually they cost you. And then there are Cuban’s boys, and they are closing in on losing out when their throws go where the teammate used to be, or some where near the basket. I’m sure you could throw better, and I am confident you believe the same about me.
Job’s friends accused him of sinning sufficiently to reap the wrath of God. Job believed he was innocent, and if he wasn’t, at least his sin was not against them. I’m not sure we could stake our reputation with Job’s. What is true, unfortunately, is that we sometimes throw words and actions around as if we live in a vacuum. When we throw out words without thinking and/or considering the impact of what we speak, or heave actions of a type or manner that violate llove, although we seldom miss the intended teammate or another teammate who may be in the area, it’s a throwing error.
Have you ever been hit by a thrown ball? Even in softball it stings. And in the major leagues (would that be the larger Churches?) a pitch or throw can maim or kill. Hence, with the analogy I am trying to make here, we need to be most careful what we throw around, and what actions we take pursuant to the knowledge and understanding we have of a situation.
There’s a certain amount of maturity that is required to think, plan, choose wisely, and act appropriately. Every time we fail to do so we are extending the damage which results from the enemy’s attack focused through our words and actions.
I can’t imagine what happened when a major league 2nd baseman, making a throw to first misses the bag, and his teammate, by 20 feet. It is astounding to me that an NBA all-star can only hit on 61% of his free throws (yep, that’s when nobody is blocking his sight or his action or his freedom of time).
I do understand how it happens in the Family of God. We make movements or take action without direction from God. We just don’t think. We just don’t pray. We just don’t act out of an understanding of genuine llove.
Don’t make “throwing errors.” You know they are going to cost someone.
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James 3:1-12
Not many of you should become teachers, my brothers, for you know that we who teach will be judged with greater strictness. 2 For we all stumble in many ways. And if anyone does not stumble in what he says, he is a perfect man, able also to bridle his whole body. 3 If we put bits into the mouths of horses so that they obey us, we guide their whole bodies as well. 4 Look at the ships also: though they are so large and are driven by strong winds, they are guided by a very small rudder wherever the will of the pilot directs. 5 So also the tongue is a small member, yet it boasts of great things.
How great a forest is set ablaze by such a small fire! 6 And the tongue is a fire, a world of unrighteousness. The tongue is set among our members, staining the whole body, setting on fire the entire course of life, and set on fire by hell. 7 For every kind of beast and bird, of reptile and sea creature, can be tamed and has been tamed by mankind, 8 but no human being can tame the tongue. It is a restless evil, full of deadly poison. 9 With it we bless our Lord and Father, and with it we curse people who are made in the likeness of God. 10 From the same mouth come blessing and cursing. My brothers, these things ought not to be so. 11 Does a spring pour forth from the same opening both fresh and salt water? 12 Can a fig tree, my brothers, bear olives, or a grapevine produce figs? Neither can a salt pond yield fresh water.
Romans 13:10
Love does no wrong to a neighbor; therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.
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