Sunday, July 17, 2022
So Small, So Mighty
For Truth
Or
Falsehoods
Psalm 141:3
Set a guard over my mouth, O Lord; keep watch over the door of my lips.
Ephesians 4:29
Let no evil talk come out of your mouths, but only what is useful for building up, as there is need, so that your words may give grace to those who hear.
Words of Grace For Today
The mouth, the tongue, the lips and one’s breath create words spoken or shouted, and
The fingers on keyboards or holding a pen or pencil create words written and published easily today for the world to read, and
There has never before been so much evidence that ‘it is what comes out of the mouth that defiles’ Matt 15:11b and ‘the pen is mightier than the sword’, as social media create so many falsehoods so widely and quickly propagated to be amplified and further perversions broadcast in a rolling ocean of waves of shtako … so much so that truth is a rare entity to encounter.
While it may be easy, as it always has been, to point to others’ efforts to destroy truth with their broad side attacks, one need be wise and ask for protection, for no one is immune from the disease of arrogance and self-righteousness that leads to one attacking truth with shtako, so we pray:
Set a guard over my mouth, O Lord; keep watch over the door of my lips.
This day, let us give thought and action to preserving truth, and to creating words that are useful for building up, as there is need, ensuring that our words may give grace to all those who hear and read them.
Another day, full of opportunity, and words. Let them be blessed.