Words

Repeat these basic essentials over and over to God’s people. Warn them before God against pious nitpicking, which chips away at the faith. It just wears everyone out. Concentrate on doing your best for God, work you won’t be ashamed of, laying out the truth plain and simple. Stay clear of pious talk that is only talk. Words are not mere words, you know. If they’re not backed by a godly life, they accumulate as poison in the soul.
2 Timothy 2:14-17a The Message

We all know that words can offer life or they can be destructive. They can be truth or they can have a spin put on them that makes them sound good, but in reality are deceiving. God's Word is Truth... always.

We've talked about it before, how a bank teller knows a counterfeit bill - not because he or she has studied the counterfeit, but because they have studied the real thing so intimately that the counterfeit is obvious to them. We must do the same with God's Word. 

We must study it so intently that just by knowing His Truth, it exposes all the lies and deceitful ploys of satan. Know it. Love it. Live it.

Prayer:

Father, 

          Help us to be diligent to present ourselves approved to You, workers who do not need to be ashamed, rightly dividing the Word of Truth. Give us wisdom to avoid vain babblings that lead to ungodly living. Let our words be the Truth and Life, Salt and Light of Your Words to a lost and dying world. In Jesus' Name we pray. Amen