Your own personal WMD, and more

We each have one. No one is immune from using it. That would be our own personal WMD, weapon of mass destruction. That, my friends, is as certain, as the saying goes, as death and taxes. You see, we all have mouths. Now mouths, in and of themselves isn’t a bad thing—in fact they are quite necessary. We must eat. We must communicate. But that’s where the problem lies. Inside of that mouth is that not so little weapon, our tongue—the same tongue that James in the Bible compares to the tiny spark that starts big fires. Our tongues are ever so capable of starting huge fires, even firestorms, when we choose to use them wrong. What often spews out of our mouths, even unintentionally, can literally kill another’s spirit, right? Most likely, volumes have been written about the damage that can come from the tongue and the mouth that houses it.

So, allow me to throw another spin on our personal WMD. Not only can it, and often is, a weapon, but its also a blessing blocker. Look at it this way; how are you to know if you may have just been hugely blessed by something someone was going to say to you but didn’t because you were wagging your tongue too much. How many times have you missed a blessing because you just wouldn’t shut up? How many times has your interruption of someone caused them to just clam up and dismiss you emotionally? How many times has your impulsive desire to be heard (and by rote, not to listen) eventually broken a relationship or caused it to chill? We are all guilty. We all place a high importance on being listened to. We all like to talk. The trouble is, often we simply talk too much, and when we do we stand the chance of missing out of truly being blessed by what that other might have said. Don’t allow your WMD be a blessing blocker.