The Word “Pen” is Mightier than the Sword

Proverbs 18:21
21 The tongue has the power of life and death, and those who love it will eat its fruit.

This verse does not say that death and life and a lot of nonproductive words are in the power of our tongues. There are only two options. Every word we speak, or hear spoken, produces only death or life. Jesus said in Mt 12:36-37, "But I say unto you, That every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment. For by thy words thou shalt be justified, and by thy words thou shalt be condemned."

Many people who don't realize the power of their own words are talking themselves to death. They speak forth whatever negative thing they feel or have been told, and don't realize they are signing their own death warrants and because of their leadership they sign it for others also. One of the things in life has taught us is that everything roles downhill, from the leaders on down. We have been as a nation for the last four decades been taken granted for the words that we speak and how it teaches others through the years how to act. If the leaders do it, it must be okay for us to do it.

The bible teaches us that there are consequences for the words that we speak. The world says that “sticks and stones will break your bones and names will never hurt you. “ They are wrong on that account, many people have been wounded by the words someone spoke and the numbers are astronomical. We are now finding out that sticks and stones will break our bones for the words that we have spoken.

Matthew 12:37
37 For by your words you will be acquitted, and by your words you will be condemned."

The Lord will use our words on the Day of Judgment to administer His justice. Our words are the true revelation of what's in our hearts (Mt 12:34 For out of the overflow of the heart the mouth speaks).

God will not accept the excuse "Oh, I didn't mean anything by that" when we stand before Him. We will be held accountable for our words. If we think about that, we will change our conversations.

As I heard our President of these United States on Wednesday January 12, 2011 speak one of the more powerful addresses that Mr. Obama has delivered as president, harnessing the emotion generated by the shock and loss from Saturday’s shootings in Arizona to urge Americans “to expand our moral imaginations, to listen to each other more carefully” and to “remind ourselves of all the ways that our hopes and dreams are bound together.”

The President mentions our words “At a time when our discourse has become so sharply polarized, at a time when we are far too eager to lay the blame for all that ails the world at the feet of those who think differently than we do,” he said, “it’s important for us to pause for a moment and make sure that we are talking with each other in a way that heals, not a way that wounds.”

The bible teaches us to do the same, let us be leaders by leading by example.