Let us take a hypothetical situation that we can assume happens a lot of the time. Let us start in a middle school. A class has just ended and three girls, who claim to be best friends, are walking down the hall together. As they are talking, one says that she is going to get braces the next day, and that she is nervous about how she will look.
So she comes to school two days later with her new braces on. The first place that she went was to her friends to ask what they thought, for she was quite worried about how she would look with braces. One of them immediately said that she looked great as the other just smiled and kept silent.
She got home that day and finished her homework then proceeded to watch television. All of a sudden her phone vibrated. She picked it up and read a text from the friend who just smiled and kept silent before talking about how hideous she thought her braces were. She had received the text by accident!
Now, to write that text only took a few seconds. Not a long time at all to write and send. But, do you think that the effects were temporary? No. One never knows the emotional toll that could have on a person.
I challenge you, as baring the Image of Christ, examine your thoughts, desires, words, and actions so that the eternal impact of these areas on others points them to Christ and Him alone!
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