Considering our words today
I once did a study on the "taming of the tongue" - a task which has proven to be quite the challenge in my own life. Words just pop into my head, come quickly to my lips, and are spoken without much thought - sometimes with warning bells sounding loud and clean in my brain, but simply unheeded by my heart! If you have ever found yourself in a similar situation, you probably know how difficult this "task" of taming the tongue can be! Jesus told the religious leaders one day, " Words are powerful; take them seriously. Words can be your salvation. Words can also be your damnation.” (Matthew 12:37 MSG) What he was really speaking about were the "careless" words we often speak - the words which come back to "haunt" us. So, I had to ask what Jesus could have meant by "careless" words - were these just he words which were spoken in an unthinking or unconcerned manner? It could be because they also include the words which have no v...