Help please help advice please

[Guest aliengurl]

Don't be so hard on yourself. Nobody is perfect and never will be we will always slip up on some sort of sin rather it be cursing or anger its in our nature . The less you pay attention to the sin and the more you focus on Christ and trusting that in time he will help you and you will look back and realize hey i dont do that anymore or you do it less often it takes time to change a old habit.

[carlos123]

A couple of thoughts to add to the advice you've been given if I might spiritual_girl.....

Get Mozilla Firefox as a browser instead of Internet Explorer and say goodbye to pop ups. It's a better browser than IE and will allow you to virtually everything IE does. Where it doesn't you can always fire up IE and endure a couple of pop ups again.

The above doesn't solve the underlying problem that God might be using the pop ups to highlight but it will help with the immediate pop ups that cause you so much frustration.

Secondly, bear in mind, that the swear words themselves are not the problem. In fact I would go so far as to say that using a swear word by itself is not a sin. It is just a word and like any other word is just a bunch of letters strung together.

The sin lies in what is happening in our hearts which is expressed through the swear words we use. That is what the Lord probably wants to put his finger on. I wouldn't sweat the fact that you are using swear words but rather I would focus on what is happening in your heart that is expressed in swearing.

I could use the word "fooey" or "cookie!" and be in sin just as much as if I used some swear words (which I won't quote to honor the sensibilities of forum members - though there would be nothing wrong with doing so).

It's not the words you may use. It's what is happening in the heart that is expressed through the mouth that matters.

Just my two cents....

Carlos

[Guest koni]

You do realize you are not the only person here who swears don't you? Your one of the few who will admit it is all. Don't beat yourself up girl. I live with swearing all around me on a daily basis, my husband is notorious at it, as is my daughter, and much of what they like to watch on tv is filled with it. So i understand completely how difficult it can be not to follow suit and do likewise, and sometimes, i slip up too. The bad part about swearing that so many people do not understand is how defiling it is to the soul. Sometimes for me, i feel like someone just dumped a bucket of slime over my head, it is so defiling, the words that fly around my house. Right now Im the only one in my home who reads the word, who wants to go to church, or follow God Gods way, so it is really hard for me. When i slip up all i can do is tell the Lord that "I am sorry, please forgive me for saying that, i should not have said that Lord, please help me to do better with this".