My Words

Joseph Rudyard Kipling was an English short-story writer, poet, and novelist. He wrote tales and poems of British soldiers in India and stories for children. He authored some of my favorite childhood stories The Jungle Book, which was the basis for Disney's cartoon, but perhaps my favorite one was Rikki-Tikki-Tavi, the story about a boy and a mongoose.  Young people today should read his short stories. I love what Mr. Kipling said about words; "Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind."

Yes, words can intoxicate or they can destroy; that's why the wisest man said the following:

"For my mouth shall utter truth, and wrongdoing is detestable and loathsome to my lips. All the words of my mouth are righteous (upright and in right standing with God); there is nothing contrary to truth or crooked in them. They are all plain to him who understands [and opens his heart], and right to those who find knowledge [and live by it]."

Proverbs 8:7-9 (AMP)

What kinds of words are proceeding out of your mouth? Are you speaking truth or are you bending and twisting your words so that you and you alone benefit from them? Are your words upright and right standing with God? If God is a party to your conversation, would He approve of the conversation, or are your words crooked and contrary to the truth?

Are your words plain and easy to understand; are they from your heart? Are they words of knowledge or words that others can live by or depend on? As believers, we should always speak words that encourage, not destroy.

The Apostle James informs us about the danger of words."A word out of your mouth may seem of no account, but it can accomplish nearly anything—or destroy it! It only takes a spark, remember, to set off a forest fire. A careless or wrongly placed word out of your mouth can do that. By our speech we can ruin the world, turn harmony to chaos, throw mud on a reputation, send the whole world up in smoke and go up in smoke with it, smoke right from the pit of hell." James 3:5-6 (MSG)

WHAT KINDS OF WORDS ARE COMING OUT OF YOUR MOUTH, EDIFYING OR DESTROYING WORDS?

Be Blessed!

Bishop Jemmott