Proverbs 12: 18
There is one who speaks rashly like the thrusts of a sword, but the tongue of the wise brings healing.
We need to really be careful to think before we speak. We need to love the sinner even while we hate the sin.
I know I have spewed out venom when I've not considered how the hearer will understand my words, and hurled out hurtful words.
When our buttons are pushed, we need to pause to frame our words in the love of God toward those who are upset with us.
Words have great power: to wound and destroy, or to heal and give life. What are your words doing?
O my Father, please teach Your children how to project Your Love in our words to those who don't know You yet. Help us all to pause and consider how the words we say will be received by the hearers.
Help me, Father, in my relationships with my adult children. Please draw them toward Yourself, open their minds and hearts to receive Your Life-giving Truth!
Please send others of Your children into their lives to share Your Truth, also. Especially my grandchildren.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus!
