So tell them, ‘As surely as I live, declares the LORD, I will do to you the very things I heard you say.
It suddenly hit be how powerful my spoken words are. The Lord told the Israelites that He would do what they say. Unfortunately, they were complaining and being rather negative. Therefore, they literally got what they spoke about. Hey, they asked for it and got it. God is a giver.
More and more, lately, I have been recognizing that my words can break me or make me. Isaiah understood this when he said:
“Woe to me!” I cried. “I am ruined! For I am a man of unclean lips, and I live among a people of unclean lips, and my eyes have seen the King, the LORD Almighty.” Isaiah 6:5
He connected his ruination with his "unclean lips" and he lived around people who were in the same state. They were bringing each other down. Judging from the Israelites' modus operandi, their lips were unclean not just because they were cursing, but more than likely it was due to all their constant criticizing and fussing. Their words were creating their own destruction.
God is creative and His words constructed our world. The Lord "said" and it happened. What are you saying? Think before you speak, what you say is shaping your reality.
But, don't worry, God is always willing and able to help you change your words and forgive you for all you have said.
Then one of the seraphs flew to me with a live coal in his hand, which he had taken with tongs from the altar. With it he touched my mouth and said, “See, this has touched your lips; your guilt is taken away and your sin atoned for.” Isaiah 6:6-7
God will design our circumstances to help us comprehend that the tongue has the power of life and death. Proverbs 18:21 Then when it has sunk in, and we have made the decision to speak His words our lives will never be the same again. It is after Isaiah had his lips cleansed with coal from the altar, that God asked whom he should send. Isaiah was now ready to take on the task and he could say, "Send me."
Can each of us say, "Send me"? Or, are we resisting God as He places us in situations that are shaped to clean up our words. Once our words are not God's words, we cannot go on the path for which He has purposed us.
If you would like to change your world, change your words. Watch your mouth!!!
Watch your thoughts, for they become words.
Watch your words, for they become actions.
Watch your actions, for they become habits.
Watch your habits, for they become character.
Watch your character, for it becomes your destiny.
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