I call heaven and earth to witness against you today, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and curse. Therefore choose life, that you and your offspring may live
Deuteronomy 30:19
Death and life are in the power of the tongue
Proverbs 18:21
God placed us here on this earth, but when He created us, He did not create robots. Instead, He gave us a mind to think with and allowed us choices. We have a “will,” which we invoke to make these decisions.
Each and every human, at many points in their course of life, will find themselves face to face with the decision presented in Deuteronomy 30:19 (above). How you respond will set a course for your life and for your eternity. But few are ever aware when this opportunity arrives, or that they even made their choice. Most slip through this veil of time completely unaware that anything of importance has happened.
I have set before you life and death….choose life.
Doesn’t it appear a bit silly that God actually takes the moment to tell us which choice to make? After all, anyone with a clear head will choose life, right? Is there anyone who would purposely and knowingly choose death?
I believe God chose to give us the correct answer, not because the answer is a hard one to figure out, but because the way in which we choose is a huge challenge. It is a challenge that reveals truly at the deepest level what our “will” really is. And it usually happens when you are completely unaware. God brought attention to this by stating the obvious so we would pay attention.
Death and life are in the power of the tongue.
Choosing life is really a no-brainer – at least in theory. But the act of choosing life or death is found in the act of choosing the words we speak. This is where things get difficult. We can choose words that bring life or we can choose words that bring death. But we will choose, because our mouths will open and a flood of words will flow forth. And your articulation, your heart, your attitude portrayed in those words have an astounding level of power over you and the ones you speak them to – the power of life or death.
You will invoke your will – either by following your own “will” to speak everything you are experiencing by your emotions and thereby speaking death, or by following the Spirit of God and speaking what He “wills” you to speak and thereby speaking life.
Once you begin to grasp the extreme level of importance placed on the words you speak, you are taking your first steps in learning to function in the Kingdom of God.
Lesson 2 – Weapons of Words
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