Monday September 12, 2016

 

“I tell it like it is”, “I call it the way I see it”, and “I don’t mince words”. There exists nothing more powerful than our words, and there is nothing more powerful than God’s word. The Bible tell us that God created everything through the power of His word; the universe and everything that exists was created and shaped through His word. Oftentimes we forget how powerful words are; they can create but they can also destroy. We can express love through our words but we can also express hate through our words. We can build up and we can destroy with our words.

 

Many of us who are believers encounter the following problem: sometimes our faith, what we believe, and our words, do not always match up. James, the brother of Jesus, wrote this statement concerning our mouths and the words that we speak: “Sometimes it praises our Lord and Father, and sometimes it curses those who have been made in the image of God. And so blessing and cursing come pouring out of the same mouth. Surely, my brothers and sisters, this is not right!”

 

John 12:49 NLT

I don’t speak on my own authority. The Father who sent me has commanded me what to say and how to say it. – Jesus.

 

One of the most astonishing aspects concerning Jesus is that when He came into our world, He came with the same limitations as we have, needing to learn the same way we have to. When the Son of God came out of Mary’s womb, He had to learn to speak a language; He could not speak a single word. Even more astonishing was the fact that He would have to learn to trust God and to depend on Him for everything. Now, if there ever was a person who had the right to say whatever he wanted whichever way he wanted to it was Jesus. After all Jesus is the word of God and through Him, all things were created. Nonetheless, Jesus never spoke of His own volition. He spoke what God commanded Him to say and He always spoke it the way God commanded Him to say it.

 

To walk in Jesus’ shoes is to say what God commands us to say the way that God commands us to say it.

 

Ephesians 4:29 AMP

 Do not let unwholesome [foul, profane, worthless, vulgar] words ever come out of your mouth, but only such speech as is good for building up others, according to the need and the occasion, so that it will be a blessing to those who hear [you speak].