My Daily Devotional

Choose Our Words Wisely

“Reckless words pierce like a sword, but the tongue of the wise brings healing.”
Proverbs 12:18

We can see how our words can be a sin in the previous devotional, but our words can also bring healing when spoken with encouragement and kindness. The taming of the tongue is important for Christians to conquer, as words spoken in anger can bring hurt, and damage and destroy relationships, but words spoken in love can bring joy and peace and hope to these same relationships. The scripture above provides much wisdom and guidance as to how we should always use our words. We must always remember that whatever comes out of our mouths comes from the heart. Our words express our true feelings about things. In order to tame our tongues, we always need to think before we speak, and consider whether our words are angry expressions that will hurt and damage our relationships with others, or whether they will be uplifting, show love and be encouragements to others. We must teach ourselves to think before we speak. Many times words spoken in anger to someone is lasting and not easily forgotten and overcome. It may take time to rebuild trust in a relationship where anger has been demonstrated. Jesus commands us to never use words that will damage and show our anger towards others. We need to always be forgiving and not hold anger against anyone. We need to be peacemakers, and our words and actions should always be to show others that we love them. It does not do anyone any good to demonstrate anger, as anger is a sin and indicates that God is not living in us. Throughout our lives we are all going to be in situations where Satan is attacking us and causing situations where we can be provoked to anger. God tells us however to resist this temptation, and choose words of love.

(Many of my readers have asked if my Daily Devotionals have been published and if they could purchase them. The Devotionals I am posting are from My Daily Devotional Volume III which was published in 2009 and can be purchased at amazon.com or from me at robbrock@comcast.net)