Tag Archives: words

God’s Perspective

Posted on by
Reply

From Psalm 8:4-6:  “What are human beings that you are mindful of them, mortals that you care for them?  Yet you have made them a little lower than God, and crowned them with glory and honor.  You have given them dominion over the works of your hands; you have put all things under their feet.”

Photo by Liza Summer on Pexels.com

People judging people each day

Empty, hurtful words hunting prey

 

Frozen in polarizing world

Harshest, cruelest comments unfurled

 

Selfish thoughts swarm to harm and crush

Discolor with darkest paintbrush

 

Critique our words and appearance

One voice moves their disappearance

 

Self-esteem sinks in stormy seas

Rising up with God’s gentle breeze

 

God’s perspective always matters

His truly counts, others scatter

 

Listen to Father in Heaven

Divine thoughts arrive to leaven

 

Life’s identity rests with God

Truest actions, never be flawed

 

Hear marvelous news from above

God values us, unselfish love

 

Always, always remember this

God’s perception, never amiss

 

Photo by RODNAE Productions on Pexels.com

From Psalm 8:1-2:  “O Lord, our Sovereign, how majestic is your name in all the earth!  You have set your glory above the heavens.  Out of the mouths of babes and infants you have founded a bulwark because of your foes, to silence the enemy and the avenger.”

Words Count

Posted on by
Reply

From James 3:5-6:  “How great a forest is set ablaze by a small fire!   And the tongue is a fire.  The tongue is placed among our members as a world of iniquity; it stains the whole body, sets on fire the cycle of nature, and is itself set on fire by hell.”

Photo by Liza Summer on Pexels.com

Children sometimes hearing these words

Sticks and stones may break someone’s bones

But, cruel words shall not hurt thee

Sadly, words can harm like thrown stones

 

Taming his rough tongue, mankind fails

Harsh words lash out, crushing others

Steers life toward ominous clouds

Disrespecting earthly brothers

 

Mothers teaching, “Now bite your tongue”

How often must we all forget?

Allowing words to run amuck

Their cold misdeeds, sin’s rising debt

 

Practice daily, Christ’s “Golden Rule”

Taming tongue, words chosen rightly

No longer curse, but life’s blessing

Words count, so use them politely

 

Photo by lilartsy on Pexels.com

From James 3:10-12:  “From the same mouth come blessing and cursing.  My brothers and sisters, this ought not to be so.  Does a spring pour forth from the same opening both fresh and brackish water?  Can a fig tree, my brothers and sisters, yield olives, or a grapevine figs?  No more can salt water yield fresh.”

Power of Words

Posted on by
Reply
Photo by picjumbo.com on Pexels.com

Words used every day

Little or much to say

 

Used in positive ways

Conveying life’s essays

 

Mindful, powerful voices

Daily, humble choices

 

Impacting other lives

Celebrate with high fives

 

Disciplined purpose speaks

Positivity seeks

 

Sharing tender kindness

Truthful, without blindness

 

Careful to help and heal

Offering a square deal

 

Words paying it forward

True and straightforward

 

Thoughtful expressions said

Weaving with tender thread

 

Replace evil with good

Words plain and understood

 

Honest lyrics in song

Carried through all day long

 

Life unfolds from our text

Watchful where words go next

 

Photo by Anna Tarazevich on Pexels.com

This poem was written several days before January 6, 2021.  Its intention was to praise and encourage the positive power of words.  The events taking place in Washington, DC on January 6 showed the negative power of words.  How will our future words speak?