Love Month: Day 8

Romans 10:10

For it is with your heart that you believe and are justified and it is with your mouth that you confess and are saved.

There is power in the spoken word. There's something about speaking something out loud that brings a new level to it's potency or truth. It's sometimes almost as if when we say something out loud that we have to in fact acknowledge it's existence.

Perhaps it's apologizing or confessing our sin to another - friend, spouse, God... Once the words are out there is no taking them back. They've been heard and they are now being processed.

This morning in my Bible reading I read in Matthew 27 where it talks about being slow to speak.... but quick to listen. Words have the power to heal and encourage but they also have the power to hurt, to break down, and to destroy. Someday we will be held accountable for the words we speak - choose them carefully.