Savor Your Words

Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind (Rudyard Kipling)

The Words that come out of your mouth are very important because they affect your health, your emotional well being and have a direct bearing on others, and what you become in life. The Scriptures declare in Proverbs 18:21 (NLT), "Those who love to talk will experience the consequences, for the tongue can kill or nourish life.” Feed yourself a healthy diet of good wholesome words because what you put into your life is what you get out of your life. The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and the lightning bug (Mark Twain). 1 Peter 3:10-11 says, “If you want a happy life and good days, keep your tongue from speaking evil, and keep your lips from telling lies.”The mouth is important for Spiritual discipline. As we practice yielding our lives to the influence of the Holy Spirit we will find the ability to control our tongues. Savor words and language because no matter what anyone tells you…words and ideas can change the world (Robin Williams in the movie Dead Poet Society). Good words nurture life and health according to Proverbs 4:20-22 (NKJV), “My son give attention to my words; incline your ear to my sayings. Do not let them depart from your eyes; keep them in the midst of your heart; for they are life to those that find them, and health to all their flesh.” Good words produce life—bad words produce death.

Your mouth and what you say has a tremendous impact on your life and controls the direction you will travel in life. Kind words can be short and easy to speak but their echoes are truly endless (Mother Teresa). Our words are like seeds planted in our hearts that produce after their own kind. Before you can be changed, you must change your language. If you do not change your language, you cannot change yourself (Pastor Paul Cho).

Take control of your talk. The tongue, like a rudder, guides us. James 3:3-4 says, “We put bits in horses' mouths that they may obey us. Look also at ships…although they are so large…they are turned by a very small rudder wherever the pilot desires.” The secret to a healthy and happy life is to control the mouth by disciplining the heart with the Word of God and prayer. Dale Carnegie said, “You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world’s happiness. How? By giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you will forget tomorrow the kind words you say today, but the recipient may cherish them for a lifetime.”

Music from "Echoes of the Heart " by Mary Duclos
©. Used with permission

Send Comment about this Page