I just casually noticed this figure while preparing to BLOG. I have written since it's inception a couple of years ago, FIVE HUNDRED TWO BLOGS! No wonder so many of them were dull and uninteresting, or about family or birds or football. That's enough for a good-sized book. Problem is...who would buy it? You have already read the thing or parts of it. The other folks out there could care less.
But what about the words we SPEAK each day? Your book and mine would be much larger than five-hundred two pages. I do give some thought to what I write. On the other hand I give little thought to many things I say. So... how many careless, uninteresting, unreadable, unedited, words do we send out into the airways each and every day? You count yours. I will be far too busy counting mine.
Jesus had a word or two for we creators of word messages, be it verbal, texting, or BLOGGING. Are you ready for His Divine comment? " The good man brings good things out of the good stored up in him, and the evil man brings evil things out of the evil stored up in him. But I tell you that men will have to give account on the day of judgement for every careless word they have spoken. For by your words you will be acquitted and by your words you will be condemned." How important are our words? You decide.
The writer of Proverbs had something good to say about words: " A word aptly spoken is like apples of gold in settings of silver" (Proverbs 25:11). Words have a place. They are important in many ways. They are woefully misused and abused in today's society. Four-letter words used most anywhere one pleases is a sign of our callousness toward our fellow persons and even our Creator. A word of warning....watch your words.
