The most important words you can say

Can you imagine what might go through your mind if, when you came home you found your spouse or one of your children dead?  Once you got through the initial shock, might your mind wander to what may have been said, or worse, unsaid, when you saw them last?  I can't imagine how I would feel if I found myself in that circumstance knowing that whatever may have been said had been something unpleasant, or worse, nasty, angry, spiteful, demeaning, sarcastic, or the like.  I can't imagine the guilt I would feel knowing it didn't have to be that way.  How about you?

How many times do we use words as weapons....words that hurt, shame, tear down, kill someone's soul?  Words are really verbal expressions of our thoughts and therefore our real  spiritual condition.  The greatest proof and example of that is all of the words Christ used in His time here on earth. He didn't mock people.  He didn't tear people apart with His words.  He never revealed an ugly, nasty side to His spiritual condition, because there wasn't one.  But our words do, don't they?

There's a couple of things that can be said about the most important words you can say....

• the most important words you can say should always be the last ones that came from your mouth
• and the most important words you can say can be the ones that you didn't say

In a perfect world, we would all "get it".  Perhaps deep in our hearts we all know it.  But in our brokenness, we don't always think of the most important words we can say do we?

I don't know about you, but I do know about me...I'm glad that I, through grace, can continue to work on these little things about life....like trying to always remember that whenever I speak, those need to be the most important words I can say, and they need to come from a man who is using Christ's example.  And it's not always easy is it?