THE POSITIVE SNARE<\/p>\n
Proverbs 6:2<\/p>\n
Thou art snared with the words of thy mouth; thou art taken with the words of thy mouth.<\/p>\n
A snare is something one uses to catch unsuspecting prey. To be taken means one is forced somewhere against his will.<\/p>\n
James has a lot to say about the tongue in chapter three. He talks about blessing and cursing coming from the same mouth. In his opinion the tongue is an unruly evil full of deadly poison.<\/p>\n
How much power do our words hold? We write beautiful, interesting stories for the world to read, hoping we bring something good to their lives; yet I listen to the people around me, and for the most part all I hear are negative things. \u201cI hate my job, I am so fat, my hair looks awful, I\u2019ll never be able to do that, I just know I\u2019ve got Cancer, I\u2019m going to die young all the men in my family die young etc\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n
What about the things we say about others? For instance, a car is driving down the road speeding. It passes in a curve. Are the first words out of our mouth, \u201c look at that idiot, he is going to find himself wrapped around a tree if he doesn\u2019t slow down\u201d? \u00a0Five miles down the road we see the same car in a ditch with policemen all around it. Did our words snare that poor man? What if his little girl was very ill and he was rushing her to the hospital. If we turned the situation around and our words were, \u201cFather please protect that person and get them safely where they are going\u201d, would it have made a difference? Is it second nature instead to wear a satisfied smirk and say,\u201d See what did I tell you?\u201d\u00a0 Do our words give the enemy power by speaking things into being? God\u2019s word says we are snared by the words of our mouth.<\/p>\n
Take the news for instance, how many times do you hear a feel good positive story off the news? Nearly everything that is \u201cNEWS\u201d is negative. If we listen to negative all day long that is what will come out of our mouth. I rarely listen to the news for that very reason. I want to hear things that lift me up. I know that we have to be aware of things going on in the world, but I wish there was only one or two negative stories and a day full of happy endings. That\u2019s what most of us write. Wouldn\u2019t it be great if that were how we lived every day?<\/p>\n
I challenge you to think before you speak and if your words are negative, stop them before you make a snare for yourself or someone else. Turn it around into something Jesus would be proud for us to say. If we\u2019re going to be snared let it be with positive words. I just know that will irritate the devil to no end and that makes me happy!<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n
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Send<\/strong><\/p>\n Originally posted 2012-07-27 10:00:00. <\/small><\/p>
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