With over 500,000 words in the English language, great is the potential to utter sayings that could wound another. Proverbs 10:19 says, “Where words are many, sin is not absent”. Cultural norms, family patterns, and personal blind spots add even more risk for our tongue to do damage.
So too, ample opportunity exists for us to utter sayings that woo the heart of another. Another Proverb tells us the “right word at the right time is like a custom-made piece of jewelry” (25:11).
In these days together, we will look at biblical ways to transform our speech so we build up with our speech instead of tearing down with our tongues.
