Sentence/Be Careful What You Say

I was reading and studying the word the other day and when I was looking something up in the concordance I seen the word “sentence” in the description. At that point the Lord impressed upon me more about the word “sentence”. The word “sentence” defined as: A group of organized words that expresses a complete thought. We also use the word sentence in the case of when someone is convicted of a crime and a sentence or judgment is passed determining the individual’s punishment for the crime he or she has committed. The Lord revealed to me that every time we speak we are making sentences. Not just in the sense of forming a group of words conveying a complete thought, but in the sense of passing judgments on someone or something whether they be good or bad depending on their content. Everything we say conveys life or death sentences. When God said: I set before you cursing and blessing, death and life, choose life. He was not just referring to our actions but also what we say. So in everything choose life.

Remember the childhood saying "sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me". Words can be very edifying and they can be very damaging as well. In High School my friends and I could be very mean towards certain people. There was one couple that we just tore to shreds with our words. We tormented them constantly, because we thought they were an odd couple. Ten years after high school I am an Emergency Medical Technician and we get a call to a home where someone tried to commit suicide. The home belonged to the couple that we had tormented all those years in hight school. I got a first hand look at the result of what my words and the words of my friends had done to a person. Words can leave deep wounds that scare a person for their whole life. It is not something to be proud of and I pray my sharing this will make others to think twice about the words we speak. If your going to sentence someone make sure you sentence them with kind words.