Day 3 (Nov. 19)

What you say truly reflects who you are. If you think about it, it's nearly impossible to be consumed with something and refrain from speaking of it. For some people this may be a video game, a girlfriend, school, politics, a hobby, etc. Think about somebody you know like this - most of what you think of that person involves what that person spends most of his or her time talking about. If you can expect to enter a political conversation with an individual every time you converse with them, you will inevitably draw the conclusion that he or she spends much of his or her time thinking, meditating, and pondering politics - it's what you know that person for: his or her basis, so to speak.

So what do you spend the most time talking about? Jesus Christ rightly said "...the mouth speaks out of that which fills the heart" (Matthew 12:34). Whatever answer you come up with for the previous question, that is what fills your heart. Obsession does not remain held up inside - it bursts out from the mouth.

That is why God holds our words to be so important. With the media and information overload of today, words are sold out cheap. It seems like what words we take in or put out have little effect because they are so plentiful. God, however, holds a much higher view (the correct view) of words. Consider this: One of Jesus' "nicknames" is the "Word;" and the Bible is also God's "Word." How much importance does God give to the Bible? and to His Son? Don't give in to society's push to destroy the value of words - your words indicate where your heart is.


*Initiate a "spiritual", God-based conversation with someone you generally would not.


"In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God," "And the Word became flesh, and dwelt among us, and we saw His glory, glory as of the only begotten from the Father, full of grace and truth."
- John 1:1,14

"But the things that proceed out of the mouth come from the heart, and those defile the man."
- Matthew 15:18

"But immorality or any impurity or greed must not even be named among you, as is proper among saints; and there must be no filthiness and silly talk, or coarse jesting, which are not fitting, but rather giving of thanks."
- Ephesians 5:3-4