'Graced' Words

COL 4:6 NIV

Let your conversation be always full of grace, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how to answer everyone.

If there's anything God has given us that can destroy and at the same time build up, it is the tongue. Wars have been fought, lives have been destroyed, hopes have been dashed and destinies have been ruined due to an improper use of the tongue. Lives have also been set at liberty, dreams have been given life and hopes have been rekindled through a kind word, a helping hands or an act of grace. It all boils down to the understanding we have of the power of our tongue. With it, men are blessed and curses; with it, we praise God and elevate man. Out of the tongue proceeds a mixture of the good, the bad and the downright ugly.

We need to evaluate our lives, examine our actions and words and learn from our mistakes. God spoke the entire world into being Through his words and it is still the same Word that is upholding the world as we see it now. He has given us the same power of creation because his breath is in us. We cannot therefore be false to our nature and live contrary to the person and nature of the One we were created like. It is an absurdity for a creation of God to be destructive or abusive. It goes against the nature of God in us to live contrary to his commands.

Not even the sin of the first Adam could make God pronounce curses on man. I stand to be corrected, but there was no where and in no version of Scripture will you see God pronounce the word 'cursed' on the man or on the woman. What God cursed was the serpent and the ground because of man. God increased the intensity of the labour of childbirth for the woman, but we know that in Christ, even that has been dealt with. Can we dare speak or act contrary to what God himself has instututed?  Should we pronounce words that go against the powerful, creative force of God's Word?

Let us watch our words and ensure that God's grace and mercy is seen in our words. That is the strongest message the world will sit up and take notice of. His time of favour is here.