Amen. The answer to improving our walk with Christ is 'love,' that is the word in Scripture. It's a bit mind-boggling to think that it is that way, that both 'faith' and 'hope' take a backseat to.........
.............love.
1. Love of God first in our life.
2. Love of others, second.
That's it !
Hisbucketsgirls asked about this and that's it, ALL the other laws (600 some in the OT alone) ALL fall under these two commandments
So, to look at #2, when our words are doing the opposite of loving others, that's NOT love
But, that said, we all err, we all make bad judgments, we need to be supportive of each other as not everyone can speak on c.c. in perfect unawkward words. So........ pray for those times words hurt you, or, others, and, as the Lord leads, speak up, in love, His Love pray for giving others, because that's going to not just be a beautiful way to do things, it's going to be perfect. The Lord leads, and, He leads us perfectly to Him and perfectly through life, through all our uPS and DOwns cuz we serve a gracious, awesome, merciful God
1 Corinthians 13:
8"Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away.
9For we know in part and we prophesy in part,
10but when completeness comes, what is in part disappears.
11When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put the ways of childhood behind me.
12For now we see only a reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.
13And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love."