Christian, count your words!

We are called to be Christ-like in order to experience a faith that is alive and is transforming us. When we own a faith that is alive in Christ, we speak words that build up and unite the church, words that set people free, forgive them and create joy, peace, self confidence, a positive self image, faith, hope and love. Words spoken in true faith change our lives and the lives of others into deliverance, redemption, blessings and hope.

What we say, reveals who we are. It is the barometer of our souls and the indicator of whether we experience faith that changes and transforms us.  

We need to listen to what we are saying.   Just like fresh and salty water cannot come from the same spring, so godly words and unholy destructive words cannot come from the same heart.  Our words show the state of our spiritual life, because true praise for God cannot come from a mouth that curses and breaks down people and the church, and spreads the fires of hell.  

We read in James 3:  9-12:

With the tongue we praise our Lord and Father, and with it we curse men, who have been made in God’s likeness.  Out of the same mouth come praise and cursing. My brothers, this should not be. Can both fresh water and salt water flow from the same spring?  My brothers, can a fig tree bear olives,   or a grapevine bear figs? Neither can a salt spring produce fresh water.

James is telling us that our words say very important things about who we are, because it reveals what is in our hearts. It shows whether our hearts are fresh and life-giving, or salty and the source of death.  Our words reveal whether our in faith in Christ is alive, or dead!