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Crooked Minds Proverbs 17:20 · Life For Toledo

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  Proverbs 17, 20. He who is a crooked mind finds
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  no good, and he who is perverted in his language
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  falls into evil. What you expect is what you
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  get. In that, if your mind is want to do bad
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  things, then you will see bad things everywhere
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  you look. Thieves expect thieves, liars expect
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  lies, and so on. Moreover, those whose mouths
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  spew venom ensure that they will eventually do
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  evil. But there's something more. A mind like
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  this and a mouth like this can actually change
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  good into bad. I've seen people who've been part
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  of a great victory and they feel compelled to
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  say something and that something then ruins the
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  victory. Sometimes there is nothing to say and
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  saying something when there is nothing to say
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  is sort of an evil of its own. TV and social
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  media makes it look like the world is a wicked
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  place full of people who will snatch you up and
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  violently abuse you. But that's not actually
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  true. Most people are just trying to do good.
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  It just happens that their version of good is
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  one of their own making rather than the one that
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  God has laid out. When we let Jesus make us whole,
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  violent storms no longer find their home in us,
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  and a man finds it less challenging to see and
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  speak good in the world, which, of course, is
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  all the more important because, as this verse
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  points out, those who speak evil in turn do evil.
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  Be good, see good, speak good, do good is the
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  way of the living, and we are no longer dead
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  in our trespasses and sins, so it should be our
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  way.