Proverbs 15:3-4 The LORD sees what happens everywhere. He watches everyone, good and evil. Kind words are like a life-giving tree, but lying words will crush your spirit.
Listen: The Power of a Gentle Word
The combined talent of the more than eight billion people walking the planet right now is truly staggering. And yet what proportion of that talent goes to waste, simply because the world doesn’t value or acknowledge it? Think about it. The loss of all that talent to the collective human enterprise is mind-blowing!
So many people have been damaged by the rough and tumble of life in a world where everyone’s clamouring for attention and success; where, because how they look or where they come from, their value is diminished in the eyes of others.
You have to ask yourself, why do we do that? And why does God allow it?
Proverbs 15:3-4 The LORD sees what happens everywhere. He watches everyone, good and evil. Kind words are like a life-giving tree, but lying words will crush your spirit.
Make no mistake. None of this has escaped God’s attention. The terrible things we do to others happen right under His nose. God sees the evil, and He will deal with it when the time comes. But in the meantime, there’s something that you and I can do that’ll make a huge difference in countless people’s lives: Kind words are like a life-giving tree.
The original Hebrew language paints a beautiful picture of those kind words – a healing tongue. Speech that restores, soothes, and encourages brings vitality, growth and blessing – like a life-giving tree.
It’s remarkable how little encouragement some people actually need to begin the process of becoming all that God made them to be. You can be the one who, through your kind words, your healing tongue, restores their life to all that it was meant to be. Yes … you.
That’s God’s Word. Fresh … for you … today.