Your Words

You can dress it up, front it and even polish it. You can rehearse the script like you’re in a play because, sooner or later, your mouth is going to tell on your heart.

In the Book of Luke (6:45) it says, “Out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks.” Your words are the receipts showing the balance of your deposits within.

If your heart is troubled with fear, your mouth will leak anxiety. Swollen with insecurity, your words come out defensive.

But if your heart is peaceful and loving, even your silence feels safe.

Spoken word tends to be psychological as it is the nervous system of the soul.

You can’t mask what’s causing your pain indefinitely, because pain has a way of hitchhiking on your inner sound. Even your “I’m fine” sounds like it is in need of therapy. It’s like trying to hide the smoke while the alarm is going off. You can try and cover the smell with scented spray, but everybody will know something is burning.

This is how your words work. They reveal the condition of your heart. If gossip is flowing out, then comparison is living within. Constant criticism flowing out, bitterness has found a home within. If overthinking is dominating your words, it means peace missed paying rent.

The grace… God doesn’t expose your heart to shame you. He exposes it for your healing. He is not saying, “watch your mouth” like a scolding parent to a child.

God is telling you to love your heart because He knows your own words are creating and shaping your life experiences.

Maybe your prayer isn’t, “Lord, change my words.” Maybe your prayer can be, “Lord, help me to give more loving words from within.” When the heart is healed, the words become loving and inspiring.

And when the mouth delivers from within words that are loving and inspiring, your relationships stop breaking under the weight of what you refuse to look at.

Don’t let the above just pass by. Words don’t just reveal you… they train you. You can literally talk yourself into deeper pain or into freedom.

Every word (or thought or action) you release will either be a seed or splinter and will affect every soul in the collective consciousness.

So, when you catch yourself saying, “I didn’t mean that”, remember, the tongue may have slipped…

But the heart never does.

In Love and Light,

Steve