Created 12/7/2008
The words we communicate are so powerful, even if we are not a King like David was. Remember the story of King David and Uriah? You know how David commanded for Uriah to be put in the front lines of battle so he would die and David could then have his wife. In II Samuel 11: 15 we read “And he wrote in the letter, saying, Set ye Uriah in the forefront of the hottest battle, and retire from him, that he may be smitten, and die.” Down in verse 21 we see that Uriah dies. Verse 25 is the tell all though as King David through a messenger sends a message to Joab to comfort him saying “for the sword devoureth one as well as another”. As if to say: Joab if it was not Uriah it would have been someone else, it really was not murder. Oh, no David! For it is David’s words that killed Uriah before the sword had a chance.
How about your words? Have they killed someone? Our words can build someone up or kill them the choice is ours. Often the words come before the action. Some examples are the roasting of your pastor that eventually leads to church wide discontentment that crucifies the pastor’s ministry. What about an unkind word that goes around the gossip circuit only to wound a Sister is Christ when it gets back to her, to the point that she walks away from God? Let us be careful with our communications for in it is the power of life and death.
