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Anyone, therefore, who really wants to improve his conversation ought to get down on his knees and pray Jesus for the humble spirit with which He washed the feet of His disciples and told them in their "turn ... to wash each other's feet" (John 13). He should pray to live up to the implications in Christ's words when His disciples "had disputed among themselves, which of them should be the greatest." Jesus said, "If any man desire to be first, he shall be the last of all, and the minister of all" (Mark 9:33, 34)- He should pray for the grace and strength in his discourses with his fellow man to adjust his pleasure to theirs, to keep the old Adam in check, who forever craves to outshine all others. He should pray and resolve that in all conversation his first concern will be to please himself only by pleasing his neighbors. |
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