"When You Open Your Mouth"

"A word out of your mouth may seem of no account, but it can accomplish nearly anything -or destroy it.

It only takes a spark, remember, to set off a forest fire. A careless or wrongly placed word out of your mouth can do that. By our speech we can ruin the world, turn harmony to chaos, throw mud on a reputation, send the whole world up in smoke and go up in smoke with it, smoke right from the pit of hell.

This is scary: You can tame a tiger, but you can't tame a tongue-it's never been done. The tongue runs wild, a wanton killer. With our tongues we bless God our Father; with the same tongues we curse the very men and women he made in his image. Curses and blessings out of the same mouth!"

James 3:5-10 (MSG)

I read this tonight. Talk about intense. This passage challenges me so much, because it reminds me of how much power i have in my words. In the words i speak over myself, over my friends, over my family, over my teachers, over my nation, over the church...

"...send the whole world up in smoke and go up in smoke with it, smoke right from the pit of hell..."

I want to be counted as wise. I want to live in such a way that brings people to Jesus. I want to speak, and speak life.

It seems almost as if more often and not, we dont even hear ourselves... We speak without thinking. We say things when we are angry that we dont mean. We forget that once it's spoken, we can't take it back.

What would it be like if we spoke life over eachother? If we spead hope and laughter and walked in love, in place of chaos, and smoke? What if we opened our mouths and blessed people, but not only that.. what if we walked in the same love and hope and laughter that we speak of?

Jesus said, "You will be known by the way you love eachother."

You were created in the image of God, and through Him all things are made new.