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Careless Words
Stab Like A Sword,
But Wise Words Bring Healing
Kathy has learned to speak up when I say remarks that are hurtful and cutting. And that helps me stop and think about what I said. When she says in response to my ugliness, “what you just said hurt my feelings.” It breaks my hard heart and I immediately ask her to forgive me. What can and often does happen in a home where careless, sharp, and hurtful words are used to clobber a spouse is an immediate response by the one who was attacked. And the hurt spouse uses even more vicious careless words and so the stabbing and attacking of each other escalates and escalates until blood is everywhere!
Scripture
Careless words stab like a sword, but wise words bring healing.
Observation
What a lie!
I have done more damage with careless hurtful words than I ever have with any sticks or stones!
Are you amazed at yourself at just how ugly you and your words can be? I sure am!
I can be vicious. I can be cruel. I can be so hurtful with what I say.
And so can you!
We destroy our most precious relationships and we hurt deeply those that we should love the most with our vicious careless words!
I have memorized this verse. Why don’t you do the same?
This is a great verse to put on your refrigerator, on a mirror in your bedroom, on the dash of your car, on your desk at work, or on all of the above.
Kathy has learned to speak up when I say remarks that are hurtful and cutting. And that helps me stop and think about what I said. When she says in response to my ugliness, “what you just said hurt my feelings.” It breaks my hard heart and I immediately ask her to forgive me.
What can and often does happen in a home where careless, sharp, and hurtful words are used to clobber a spouse is an immediate response by the one who was attacked. And the hurt spouse uses even more vicious careless words and so the stabbing and attacking of each other escalates and escalates until blood is everywhere!
… but wise words bring healing.
Kathy … “What you said hurt my feelings?”
Eddy …”I love you. I am sorry. Will you forgive me?”
Application
I will watch my words and my tone this week as I deal
with people especially with those that I love the most. How about you?
Prayer
Heavenly
Father, my heart is most deceitful and desperately wicked. Who really knows how
bad it is? (Jeremiah 17:9) Don’t let me hurt people with careless words. Help
me to use wise words with people, words that bring healing.
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I pray for young couples that are growing in their Christian faith. I pray that
You help them love each other. I pray for those who are close to me that need
to fall in love with You. Help them to surrender their lives to You. I pray
that they come to a place in their lives where they put You first. They need
Your love in their lives so that they can love their spouses in the way that
You intended. Thank You for giving me a wife that is so wise. She knows how to
respond to me when I am mean and she does it in a way that brings healing.
Daily Bible Reading: Nehemiah 7,8; Acts 1; Psalm 57-61; Proverbs 12
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