Sticks and Stones

Have you ever heard the old saying, “Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words can never harm me?” Sure you have, and you probably heard it the same time every one else heard it – After you were hurt by someone’s words.

You see, this saying isn’t true! We only use it to try and sooth the pain and hurt that already exists.

Did you ever tell a lie or say hurtful things about someone else, then when they’re clearly in pain you tried to “Fix it” by saying, “I was just kidding!” or “I really didn’t mean it!” –It’s too late, your words hurt them.

The Bible says that words can be as hurtful as throwing a flammable substance on someone to burn them, or as deadly as shooting them. The Bible describes it this way, “As a mad man who casteth firebrands, arrows, and death, 19 So is the man that deceiveth his neighbour, and saith, Am not I in sport?” Proverbs 26:18-19

The word of God teaches, “Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers.” Ephesians 4:29

When you open your mouth to speak, you are the deliverer of words that can deliver pain and suffering or words that can build someone up!

CraigKeel

You Can’t Judge My Heart! -Then Stop revealing it!

A saying I frequent hear is “You can’t judge my heart!”

While only Jesus can gaze directly into the deeply hidden recesses of your heart and soul, there is at least one way every one else can determine what kind of heart you have.

That is by what you say when you open your mouth. Jesus said, “But those things which proceed out of the mouth come forth from the heart; and they defile the man. 19 For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies:” Mt.15:18-19

When you open your mouth to speak, YOU uncover your heart and reveal it to the world.

Ask your self these questions: Am I a picky eater? Am I afraid to taste certain foods because they look “NASTY?” If I put in my mouth  nasty and smelly things, would my friends declare me “weird” and stay away from me?

Jesus said, “There is nothing from without a man, that entering into him can defile him: but the things which come out of him, those are they that defile the man.” MK. 7:15

You see, it’s not what goes into us that pollutes us, but what come out of our mouths revealing our hearts, who we really are inside.

If only we were as picky about what we said, as we are about what we eat. Think about it.

Rory Craig Keel

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