My words have much power!

Quote For Meditation:

As a tree gives fruit, healing words give life; but dishonest words crush the spirit. (Proverbs 15:4)

温良的舌、是生命树．乖谬的嘴、使人心碎。(箴言15:4)

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Most of the times, we speak without realizing that those words hurt another person badly. Out of our anger, sometimes even out of sincerity, we speak. We are so careless in our words that we leave a deep scar in another's heart. Yes. The Lord in His grace and mercy can heal that scar but they are words from our mouth that cause it. We praise God with beautiful words, but we treat God's created men with contempts.

很多时候,我们信口开河随意伤害别人.我们可以是在怒气中,甚至诚恳地,就开口说了.因为我们口不择言,就在别人的心灵留下深深的烙印.当然,上帝的恩典和怜悯可以医治那伤口的疤,但它却是我们口中出来的话所造成的.我们用美丽的词语赞美神,却用同一张口所出的话来伤害上帝创造的人.

James 3:9-12

With the tongue we praise our Lord and Father, and with it we curse human beings, who have been made in God’s likeness. Out of the same mouth come praise and cursing. My brothers and sisters, this should not be. Can both fresh water and salt water flow from the same spring? My brothers and sisters, can a fig tree bear olives, or a grapevine bear figs? Neither can a salt spring produce fresh water.

雅各书3:9-11
我们用舌头颂赞那为主为父的、又用舌头咒诅那照着神形像被造的人．颂赞和咒诅从一个口里出来、我的弟兄们、这是不应当的。泉源从一个眼里能发出甜苦两样的水么。

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Dear brothers and sisters, let the Holy Spirit controls our tongues. Speaking the truth in love is what the bible tells us to do. Whose truth is that? God's truth? "Truth" understood by our minds? "Truth" colored by our traditions? "Truth" that comforts our flesh? So much "truths" have been spoken (or written) which do not lead people to repentance but to depression.

亲爱的弟兄姐妹,让圣灵管制我们的舌头吧!圣经教导我们用爱心说诚实(真理)话.谁的真理?上帝的真理吗?还是经过我们理智思考的"真理"?还是被传统套住的"真理"?还是体贴肉体的"真理"?世上有太多的"真理"说(或写)出来,非但没有带人进入神有盼望的悔改中,而是进到人死亡的沮丧中.

"God, have mercy on us." This is my only plea to our gracious Lord. I begin to understand what Prophet Isaiah meant, "“Woe to me! I am ruined! For I am a man of unclean lips, and I live among a people of unclean lips."

"神啊!怜悯我们."这是我向施恩的主唯一的呼求.我开始有点了解以赛亚先知的话,"祸哉、我灭亡了．因为我是嘴唇不洁的人、又住在嘴唇不洁的民中．

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