"How forcible are right words!" Nowhere, I believe, is this truth more authenticated than when a child of God speaks a word of encouragement to a downtrodden brother or sister. How often have I seen, like the sun-flower, the drooping head of a saint lift his or her face to the "Son" again, after a cheerful word of optimism from the Bible.
People are not soon to forget the encouragers who have crossed their paths in life. I know in my own case I can go all the way back fifty-six years ago to that first precious saint who said to a young preacher boy, "You keep going, Brother Richard, don't give up. God's going to use you mightily!" That was a word, as Isaiah puts it, spoken in season to him that [was] weary.
One of the greatest and most lasting things Moses ever did is little spoken of, if at all. It concerns a young man who had a gigantic task before him, "But charge Joshua, and encourage him, and strengthen him." This "old man," Moses, accomplished some great things in his life, but none I imagine as great as this. I wonder how often Joshua, in his life, thought back to it.
Why not start today to look for some downcast soul and speak a good word to them?
"A man hath joy by the answer of his mouth: and a word spoken in due season, how good is it!"
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