Today’s Reading: Words can hurt you and the right words can help heal you. Those words that crush and hurt you are known as toxic words. Toxic words are incredibly dangerous not only when they are spoken to you, but when you speak them to others. This week you will read from God’s Word about the dangers of toxic words and the power of life-giving words.
How are toxic words infecting your life right now?
Life and death are in the power of the tongue.
My dad’s always told me that things start in your heart, then go to your head, then come out of your mouth (which of course is biblical but I’m partial to my dad’s explanations).
Guard your heart,
which will guard your mind,
which will protect your tongue.
which will guard your mind,
which will protect your tongue.
And boy does my tongue need protecting. Even as simple as catching myself in dramatic moments where I’m exaggerating for entertainment sake. I’ll think back and realize that even though it can sometime be funny, that extra flare of drama can seem hurtful, or represent someone’s heart/intentions wrong, just for a laugh…
I need to be more protective of the ones I love.
Especially because I know how painful words can be. Anyone who survived puberty knows. And the toxic things that come out of our mouths, come out of a toxic thought, toxic ethic, toxic belief about ourselves or God, that now has created a ripple effect and created toxicity in anther’s life. It will spread like wildfire If we don’t look it square in the eye and say “I reject you [toxic thought] in the name of Jesus!!!” (Thanks Danae).
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