Don't Say Anything At All!

Thursday's Devotion (4-27-06)

"All the words of my mouth are in righteousness; there is nothing froward or perverse in them." Proverbs 8:8 (KJV)

Yesterday, I talked about deepening your worship life and how to do that. When I saw today's verse, I immediately thought, "You know, I left this out yesterday." Have you ever said something bad and then someone told you: "Do you kiss your mother with that mouth?" Well, I'm not afraid to admit it, but I have! I'm not proud of it, but I'm not going to lie to you. Anyway, it is disrespectful to the Lord to use your mouth for evil and then worship Him with that same tongue. So, you just got done telling so and so where to go, and now you're going to tell the Lord, "Praise be thy name!" That's very disrespectful to the Lord. Think He doesn't think of it that way? Think again! I encourage you to read James 3:5-10. That will prove the point that I'm trying to make here.

"All the words of my mouth are in righteousness..." That part of today's verse says a lot on it's own. To speak only righteousness is to never tell a lie, it's to never use profanity, it's to never talk perverse, it's to edify others with your mouth. To edify is to encourage others and to help lift their spirits. That means you shouldn't murmur about people. No more saying, "You're going to hell!" under your breath. If you want to be right with God, you have to be right with your neighbors! That's just saying that you have to try and do them right, you shouldn't speak against people in a way that's AGAINST them. I'm not saying that you can't offend people, because God knows that you will when you speak the gospel. But the intentions of your words should be to bring good towards others, your words shouldn't bring any harm to anyone. If you're not speaking righteously, then that's going to hinder your worship life! Don't justify yourself by saying, "I don't speak unrighteousness, I just type it!" It's the same thing! If you are serious about your walk with Jesus, then be serious about the words that come out of your mouth. If you can't say anything good about someone, then don't say anything at all. Maybe that's why nobody posts messages back to me on here, ha-ha.

Prayer: Dear Heavenly Father, thank you for this message and for all things. Please forgive us of all our sins, and we forgive those who've wronged us. Help us to speak righteousness and not unrighteousness. May our mouths be used as tools for good and not for evil. In Jesus name. A-men!

God bless!

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