Words the Fountain of Life

May this be of Help to you in some way God bless:

Word's The Fountain of Life

Words the most important thing to master, the tongue,
the tongue, Proverbs 21:23 NLT "Watch your tongue, and keep your mouth shut, and you
will stay out of trouble" As Christians we are to be the salt of the earth (Matthew 4: 13-16),
but what happens when we waste our flavor, the flavor of life. The most essential thing to
communicate to our Lord, Jesus Christ ? It is thrown out, and set underfoot to be trampled on.
Words cannot be taken back, for example: I buy you a car it becomes beat up and breaks down.
The engine falls apart, and it won't run. It's totaled. I believe it is time to buy a new one.
The difference between words and an object is that words are immaterial. They cannot be replaced,
example:

My friend and I engage in a disagreement between a certain topic, one of us ends up with
hurt feelings, etc. Would it help to contemplate wether or not I should say I'm sorry or not? NO! We should gladly without even thinking simply put our pride aside and say, "You know what, what I did was wrong, please forgive me that was not of Christ." But let us not become aware of the fact that this little factor
of life, two words, "I'm sorry" can be used as a bribe. Proverbs 21: 14 NIV "A gift given in secret soothes
anger, and a bribe concealed in the cloak pacifies great wrath"


-State of Hibernation-

This is where I believe us Christians to be in hibernation, hibernation is defined as, "to withdraw or
be in seclusion; retire" or in zoology "to spend the winter in close quarters in a dormant condition, as
bears and certain animals"

Hibernation is a great way to define this prolonged issue with Christians 3 factors:

Fat - A bear does what during the time before winter? He gets fat. The fat is then used later during
this period of hibernation during tough winter conditions to help him survive. If you compare this to a Christian this fat can be considered as the temple of Christ. Our bodies.

Closer Quarters and Dormant Conditions (explained below)


FAT- Us Christians are usually blinded by the fact that we often accuse, the people who criticize others are undoubtedly ending up with the bigger problem.
The accused know they can't do anything from the judgement of others. It was not their tongues who
tore down another. Though, back to the accuser. The battle was between two people, it was a secret,
a secret involves information passed down to another. This "secre-tier" the accuser, has the bigger
problem. He has the most valuable information to solve a verbal conflict if someone is hurt. Though to finish my explanation, words are not material. Sometimes us Christians bribe under our cloak of shame, we bribe ourselves in two ways only to pacify fury (Proverbs 21: 14 New Living Translation). We are:

A. choked up in our pride and it burns us on the inside, not only because we now have a hardened
heart but (

B. We bribe ourselves thinking "Oh well it will be ok, we just got into a little fight thats all." Yet
our fury that we don't see burns inside, Jesus Christ saying to us through his holy spirit "HEY! WHAT ARE YOU DOING, I CAN FORGIVE SOMONE WHO PERSECUTED CHRISTIANS (Saul or later Paul) BUT YOU, PLEASE FOR MY SAKE, FORGIVE YOURSELF, AND EVEN MORE ASK FOR FORGIVENESS and say your sorry."

CLOSED QUARTERS, AND DORMANT CONDITIONS- And to tie the bow into a knot. We are choosing to live our lives with God's judgement (dormant conditions), his wrath. We do not just beat up ourselves, we beat up our temple. The place where Christ dwells, we beat up on someone who died for us. Words cannot be taken back, example: I hurt your feelings, so I hand you $100, does that solve the problem? No, in the long-run we are just beating ourselves up yet again. Words cannot be purchased, they are weighed. They have a value. If I say to someone, "Wow! You look very nice today." They can begin to believe I am a very nice person. Until, the scales are balanced and they see me criticizing someone else about their appearance, or hang around me to see if I really am who I appear to be (Proverbs 21:29).

James 3: 7-12 " All kinds of animals, birds, reptiles and creatures of the sea are being tamed and have been tamed by man, but no man can tame the tongue. It is a restless evil, full of deadly poison.
With the tongue we praise our Lord and Father, and with it we curse men, who have been made in God's likeness. (10)Out of the same mouth come praise and cursing. My brothers, this should not be. (11)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."

We are called to be salt, the flavor to an unflavored world. And light to a world covered in shame, and darkness. The writer James is very clear to say in vs 9 that yet how we try and to praise our Father, and with the same tongue curse men made in God's likeness (or other Christians). That's such a simple statement yet so true. We praise our God and with the same mouth we denounce Him. The superior judge
reigns rules in our lives and we don't take advantage of it? All it takes is one word and in sticky situations in life it's ALL we need, one word. James 3: 5b-6 NLT "But a tiny spark can set a great forest on fire. And the
tongue is a flame of fire. It is a whole world of wickedness, corrupting your entire body. It can set your
whole life on fire, for it is set on fire by hell itself" All it takes is one word to tear a person down and one word to build them up. The fire's that burn inside of our hearts are not a holy fire, warm to just the right touch. But
burn by our selfish desires, ambitions, you fill in the blank.

The solution to all this: Ultimately the One and Only....Christ, the Savior.

Factors: Words are valuable, words cannot be taken back, words are priceless, they cannot be bought.