Breath

"The tongue is a fire," James 3:6.

Is it really true that people will have to account for every offhand word they ever spoke? Do our careless words truly open up windows to our hearts? Can our own casual words justify or damn us? Are words really the produce we bring to the table? Can words really pollute? So what if we bless God but insult humans? I mean, they're just words. Are words that big a deal? really, now? Jesus answers: Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. and Yes. That's how the Word handles our words. Casual insults (and volitional malice) fire up generational cycles; such words themselves are fueled by hell. Don't believe it? Listen for a few moments to the day's news: consider outcomes of words lobbed here and there. Their smoke chokes. We can't breathe.

So we turn to Jesus (to whom else shall we go!?) and find his words of fresh Breath and Life - word of eternal life. Before the day is out, we shall forgo fiery rhetoric, and speak God's eternity into the life of a brother or sister. Or other human needing a breath.