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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.