A lament--

It's your heart, not the dictionary, that gives meaning to your words. A good person produces good deeds and words season after season. An evil person is a blight on the orchard. Let me tell you something: Every one of these careless words is going to come back to haunt you. There will be a time of Reckoning. Words are powerful; take them seriously. Words can be your salvation. Words can also be your damnation." Matt 12:35-37 The Message

Words...we use them so frequently and carelessly. We forget what we are really saying, and use powerful words to explain a minimal thing. In this day and age the word awesome is used to describe everything from God to the outfit that your BFF is wearing. You can't honestly tell me that your friends shoes cause you to stand in awe...

These days a resolution is made by most everyone at least once a year! The word resolution means to be resolute--marked by FIRM determination. Resolve is dealing with something SUCCESSFULLY!!! Now when we hear the word resolution we think temporary, it means to "try" to do something, but...The truth is, when you resolve within yourself to do something, you decide to ACCOMPLISH IT at any cost...not "try" to.

Last but certainly not least let's talk about the one word that is grossly misused; love. How many times a day do you say this POWERFUL and MEANINGFUL word? Do you 'love' the steak that is cooked perfectly that you had for lunch, or maybe you just 'love' the restaurant in which it was prepared. Do you 'love' your friend's 'awesome' shoes?

How often do our children hear us use this wonderful word out of context? They must hear us say, "I 'love' chocolate cake it's my favorite desert!!" Then they hear us say, "sweetie I 'love' you!" It makes it difficult to express to them TRUE LOVE, because they know how we feel about that cake we had for desert.

Words are powerful and somehow we have disarmed their effectiveness and meaning. We have used them carelessly and have become desensitized to their worth.

I challenge you to stop saying these words (and others) out of context. This next week just pay attention to how many times in a day you say, "I love____" or "that _______is awesome" STOP and THINK before you SPEAK...
Say what you mean...and MEAN what you say!



Just Bb

The tongue can bring death or life;those who love to talk will reap the consequences.-Prov 18:21 NLT