Heartgate International Ministries

Life is a challenge! It is filled with good times and bad; easy and hard, always with choices that can lead to brighter days or darker ones. Every challenge met is a stepping stone, a building block of the future you. Along the road of life to the future you, we must communicate with others who are also on that same road. And that communication over the years reveals who we are, how we think, what is important to us, what we believe and who we trust, etc. The vehicle used for basic communication is “words”.

Recently (prior to Charlie Kirk’s assassination) I shared a post stating that there are three things in life that can never be retrieved – one of which is the spoken word. Having seen the behavior and heard the horrible communication of so many since Charlie’s death, I want to post the excerpt addressing the spoken word. Again, it is our choice to make as to what we believe and what words we choose to communicate with – but those words are very important, and they reveal who we are “inside” as well as “outside”.

The spoken word is not just a passing idea in your mind, or something sitting silently on the pages of a book, a piece of paper or a computer.  The spoken word is active; once spoken it is air-born and reaching out to someone – so it’s (1) active, (2) its not silent, (3) it is communicating something, and (4) it has a voice and is speaking to someone. And because words are so powerful, whether used in a positive or negative way, we have choices to make every time we give a voice to that thought.  That spoken word continues on long after it is spoken and has the capacity to affect any who hear it. What do we want to communicate with that word? Jas. 3:8 “the tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison”.  But scripture declares that the tongue can be brought under control by our yielding to the Holy Spirit.  Then our words can become like Proverbs 25:11 says, “A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in frames of silver.”