Proverbs 8:8-9
8 All the words of my mouth are in righteousness; there is nothing froward or perverse in them.
9 They are all plain to him that understandeth, and right to them that find knowledge.
I have been working for a long time now on learning to keep my mouth shut. If you knew me you would know why it has taken me years and years to accomplish this. I have a bit of a hot head and I can blow steam if I am not careful. God has been working on my heart about learning when to speak and when not to. I think I have made progress~ well I hope I have.
Do you think words are important to God? I sure do. I so want all my words to be in righteousness~ never froward or perverse.
So lets do a word study~ what does froward mean?
We are created in His image and daily we are to conforming to His likeness . Last week while spending time with my Washington kids I watched my grandson try to be just like his dad. Boston loves his daddy and wants to do things just like his him. That's how we are suppose to be to God. We are to have a desire to be just like Him~ if we have made Him Lord of our life.
9 They are all plain to him that understandeth, and right to them that find knowledge.
I have been working for a long time now on learning to keep my mouth shut. If you knew me you would know why it has taken me years and years to accomplish this. I have a bit of a hot head and I can blow steam if I am not careful. God has been working on my heart about learning when to speak and when not to. I think I have made progress~ well I hope I have.
Do you think words are important to God? I sure do. I so want all my words to be in righteousness~ never froward or perverse.
So lets do a word study~ what does froward mean?
- bad, contrary, errant, naughty, misbehaving, mischievous defiant, disrespectful, ill-mannered, ill-natured, impolite,improper, impudent, indecorous, insolent, rude, uncouth,unmannerly; disobedient, headstrong, intractable,obstreperous, recalcitrant, refractory, transgressing,unruly, untoward, willful (or wilful); balky, restive,uncontrollable, ungovernable, wayward, wild; arch, elfish,impish, knavish, monkeying, monkeyish, ornery, pixieish,prankish, rascally, roguish, waggish; dissolute, perverse,wrongheaded; disorderly, rowdy, ruffianly; corrupt, evil,wicked; insurgent, mutinous, rebellious; disobliging,inconsiderate, selfish, thoughtless, unkind, unkindly;babyish, childish, immature, infantile, jejune, juvenile,kiddish, puerile
Oh my stars~ I am sure I need to keep working. How about you?
We are created in His image and daily we are to conforming to His likeness . Last week while spending time with my Washington kids I watched my grandson try to be just like his dad. Boston loves his daddy and wants to do things just like his him. That's how we are suppose to be to God. We are to have a desire to be just like Him~ if we have made Him Lord of our life. That means every kind of perverseness of any kind should be out of our thinking and for sure our words.
Words have power~ they really do! They have power to affect how we think ~what we believe and what we say. They affect every little aspect and impact our lives significantly.
We can do so much damage to others and ourselves with our tongue. We can plant seeds of worry and doubt in others with our words. We can speak life or we can speak death. It is up to us.
Let's speak words of life today~
Proverbs 18:21
Death and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof.
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