Words
There's been a lot about Jason Russell over the last few weeks, especially in the last few days. It's a difficult situation but I know this - people love to talk. In a world where we are more connected than ever before, with so many forums on which to type words, people fire out their thoughts so quickly, without realising the damage words can cause. In an ideal world, words that other people say or don't say would never get anyone down but unfortunately we don't live in that world. We live in a world where words can speak life or death over people. Words that people say, or fail to say, ruin friendships and create misery. Words have such an impact on our minds, on the words we say to each other and on the thoughts that run through our head without a checkpoint.
I for one love being connected. I love being in touch with everything going on in the world. I love twitter, facebook and my blackberry. But sometimes being connected can open you up to the negative voices in the world. What happened to J. Russell could have been a result of many negative words on his mind. The body and mind are a strange thing - it isn't strange to me that he reacted in a shocking way.
Words cut and people cut themselves with words.
Use every opportunity to speak encouragement. Use every opportunity to keep silent. Seek out ways to love others if correction is needed.
'Not what goes into the mouth defiles a man; but what comes out of the mouth, this defiles a man.' Matt 15 v11
'And let us consider one another in order to stir up love and good works, not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as is the manner of some, but exhorting one another, and so much the more as you see the Day approaching.' Hebrews 10 v24-25
I for one love being connected. I love being in touch with everything going on in the world. I love twitter, facebook and my blackberry. But sometimes being connected can open you up to the negative voices in the world. What happened to J. Russell could have been a result of many negative words on his mind. The body and mind are a strange thing - it isn't strange to me that he reacted in a shocking way.
Words cut and people cut themselves with words.
Use every opportunity to speak encouragement. Use every opportunity to keep silent. Seek out ways to love others if correction is needed.
'Not what goes into the mouth defiles a man; but what comes out of the mouth, this defiles a man.' Matt 15 v11
'And let us consider one another in order to stir up love and good works, not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as is the manner of some, but exhorting one another, and so much the more as you see the Day approaching.' Hebrews 10 v24-25