Words

I'm giving away my age here but I remember an old song from the 70's early 80's and part of the lyrics were, “words don't come easy to me.” Communication is such a vital part of our lives and yet most of us struggle in one way or another to express ourselves through words.

The cliche that “sticks and stones may break by bones but words will never hurt me” is the furthest thing from the truth that you can ever imagine. Words are powerful! The Apostle James talks about the fact that we use small bit in a horses mouth to turn their whole body and that ships are guided by a relatively speaking small rudder. So too our tongue is a small part of our body but can cause a great fire, i.e. conflict.

In bible school we learned that through studies they have found that there are 5 major causes for divorce and I challenge anyone to defy the logic thereof and these are: Communication, money, family, sex and religion.

Above all these, one fact confirms the true power of communication. The written word of God. God chose to communicate His love for us by not only sending His Son to die for us but by leaving a historical account of His great works over the ages through the words we see in scripture.

Yes, words are powerful, so lets pray and ask God to guide us to use them wisely!