The Way with Words
What would you do if you had something to say that could change everything?
Would you wait and hope that someone else will say it? Perhaps you just don’t want the responsibility when the weight of your words will most definitely have an intended or unintended impact.
It is easy to go with the flow, accept life as it is happening and observe it all without taking the risk of being the one who spoke up.
On several occasions I have received insight so heavy that it caused me to ask ‘Why me?’ Whether I took action on what I learned or not, I realized that I would always be responsible for what I knew. More and more I am striving to have the courage and basic obedience to communicate or act upon the knowledge God gives me. When God gives me something to pray or speak about, I have to submit and trust Him with the outcome.
As demonstrated in the Bible and throughout our own individual lives, words have creative power. One can curse a child and literally watch them wilt under the power of those negative words. You can also repeatedly speak life over that same child and watch how death loses its sting under the power of loving words. We can call wonderful things into being in our lives, relationships and careers by speaking life into those areas. We can also bring wonderful change to others by speaking courageously into their lives.
How will you use your words today?
Proverbs 18:20-21 (New King James Version)
20 A man’s stomach shall be satisfied from the fruit of his mouth;
From the produce of his lips he shall be filled.
21 Death and life are in the power of the tongue,
And those who love it will eat its fruit.
