Rev. Ray and Pat Amos
THE WORDS WE USE
“A good man brings good things out of the good stored up in his heart, and an evil man brings evil things out of the evil stored up in his heart. For the mouth speaks what the heart is full of.”
Luke 6:45
Would you buy water if you knew that it was bottled from a contaminated spring? Does a person continue to use food that has been recalled because of infectious bacteria? Would we offer these things to our family and friends? These may seem like foolish questions, but are they?
There is something else that can bring much good, or it can destroy someone. It depends on how we use them, and where we got them. A delicious food often leads to the question, “Where did you get the recipe?” No one ever ask where we got our garbage.
Where did you get the WORDS that you will use today? Few things build up, or tear down, a person like words do. “A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in settings of silver.” (Proverbs 25:11)
Just as the woman said to Peter on the night that Jesus was arrested, can it be said to us that our speech betrays us? The words that we use, and the way we say them will tell much more about us than we may think. It is not hard for others to know where we got them.
Perhaps we can include Psalm 141:3 in our morning prayer: “Set a guard over my mouth, LORD; keep watch over the door of my lips.”
“Oh, be careful, little tongue, what you say,
Oh, be careful, little tongue, what you say.
There’s a father up above looking down in tender love,
Oh, be careful, little tongue, what you say.”
Grace and Peace, Rev Ray
Link to YouTube Video – O Be Careful Little Eyes
