Words: They have the power to build or destroy...How do you use yours?

How do you use yours? Do you build up others with your speech or cut them down? Do you guard your tongue or could you care less whose feelings you hurt in the process of getting your point across. We need to be careful we aren't using our tongues to destroy the spirit of another. It's not always what you say, it's how you say it that makes all the difference in getting your point across effectively without bruising the spirit of another. Words can hurt and its sad many people fail to realize this. The Bible speaks in detail on how we should treat one another and that we should guard our tongues. Hurt feelings can cause one to want to act in a fleshly manner to get back at another, to make them feel the same pain that they have made us feel in their choice of words and the tone they use in expressing something us. I see more relationships break up because people do not know how to communicate or express themselves to another in the way in which God says we should speak. I find many people do not guard their tongues, they speak first and think last, but once you have said something to a person wrong its hard for them to forget and you surely cant take it back once you said it. The only thing you can do if your heart leads you to is apologize. Some apologize later because they feel remorseful for the damage they have caused with their tongues but many don't because they don't feel they have done anything wrong/ and or dont realize that they have been offensive, even worse some know and flat out could just care less. However, on the flip side of our inflicted pain we must find it in our heart to forgive them. Yes it can be hard especially if you have been publicly humiliated but no matter how difficult it may seem to do so we must because its what God says and wants us to do always remembering the He said we should be not just hearers of the word but DOERS.

The Bible says....Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you....Ephesians 4:32

Let your speech be always with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man....Colossians 4:6