“In the beginning...God said…”
“In the beginning was the Word...”
(Gen. 1:1,3;Jn. 1:1)
As I started through my Bible again in my devotional time, it struck me that God created Adam with a built-in vocabulary. Adam knew all the different terms, those God used in their conversations. Although he had not seen or experienced many of them, evidently he was still familiar with their meanings, for example; eating and death. Up till that moment he had not partaken of the one or seen the other.
Most of us never stop to think how important and powerful words are. Job says, “How forcible are right words,” and Jesus tells us we will be justified or condemned by them, and must give account of them at judgment. The Good Book records death and life proceed from the tongue. The wise man in Proverbs covers the subject of our words in great detail. Thus, we should often read and heed his writings.
God only knows the countless wounds I have inflicted by my words in the lives of others. One of the great agonies of my soul is the realization that the unkind words I have spoken can never be taken back. Most cutting (unscriptural) words only leave the recipient bleeding, without any ointment of encouragement being poured in, or lovingly bound up. We leave them wounded by the wayside to suffer alone!
“Pleasant words are as an honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.”
(Prov. 16:24)
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