The comments pierced at my heart like venomous daggers.
Mean, cruel, heartless, cold comments shooting at me like deadly arrows against my personal Christian beliefs and the Bible truths I tried to share.
And let me tell you, friend, I felt HURT.
GREATLY HURT.
Man’s Words
What I experienced that day was the effect of man’s words.
The Bible tells us that the heart of man–if it’s unconverted–is “desperately wicked” according to Jeremiah 17:9.
For thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will cause to cease out of this place in your eyes, and in your days, the voice of mirth, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride.
(Jeremiah 17:9)
And Jesus also said clearly in Matthew 12:34 that “out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.”
So if the heart is wicked, then naturally the words that people say will be wicked.
It’s interesting to note that the Hebrew word for “wicked” (‘ānaš) in Jeremiah 17:9 actually means “sick, pain, wound.”
This tells me that if the HEART is WOUNDED with the SICKENING PAIN of SIN, and has never been truly HEALED by Jesus Christ, then by default that sick, wounded heart will bring wounds and sicknesses against other hearts through its sickening, wounding words!
The Bible puts it this way in Luke 6:45:
A good man out of the good treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is good; and an evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is evil: for of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaketh.
(Luke 6:45)
God’s Words
As a major contrast to this, the Bible says in Proverbs 30:5 that:
“Every word of God is pure….”
(Proverbs 30:5)
That Hebrew word for “pure” in this verse means “to purify, purge away.”
While it’s true that the words of man can hurt us, wound us, and pollute us, it is solely God’s Words as found in the Holy Bible that can purify and purge away the pain and the stains of what people may say against us.
It reminds me of another Bible promise I’d like to conclude this blog post with:
He sent his word, and healed them, and delivered them from their destructions.
(Psalm 107:20)
Amen! Maranatha!