MY SPOKEN WORDS AND MY UNSPOKEN THOUGHTS

Psalm 19:14 "May my spoken words and unspoken thoughts be pleasing even to you, O lord my Rock and Redeemer"

The above verse says"...pleasing EVEN to You, O Lord..." that is to say our thoughts and words should not only be pleasing to us as children of God but more  so, be pleasing to God our creator.

Have you ever wondered if your words and silent thoughts ever matter as a child of God? Do you know that people can identify if you are God's child or a child of the devil from the words you say and you can only say words from the abundant thoughts in your head. Not only can we be identified by the words we speak but God is going to judge each of us by the words and thoughts in our hearts. Jesus said in Matthew 12:36b "...you must give account for every idle word you speak" and He said further in verse 37 that "your words reflect your fate (destiny) then: either you will be justified or condemned by them". Apostle James writes in James 3:5-6 " so the tongue is a small thing, but what enormous damage it can do...the tongue is a flame of fire...". What that means is that our tongue with which we use in talking needs to be controlled or  it can lead us to great danger and also can be used in identifying the type of persons we are as I mentioned ealier on. Proverbs 23:7a says "For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he..." because in Matthew 12:35, Jesus further confirms it b saying "A good man out of the treasures of his heart bringeth forth good things, and an evil man out of the evil treasues of his heart bringeth forth good things".

    From these few massages we can see that we should change our thoughts and our words to be in line with the word of God as we are identified by our words and judged by both our words and our thoughts but the a good step in doing that is to avoid or cut off from friends that influences us negatively just as in 2 Timothy 2:16 warns us to "steer clear of foolish discussion which lead people into sin of anger with each other" and also 1 Corinthians 15: 33b "... if you listen to them, you will start acting (thinking and speaking) like them". But what if we have been speaking and thinking evil? What do we do?  Like the Psalmist, we need to say this prayer he did in Psalms 19 :12b-13 "Cleanse me from hidden faults and keep me from delibrate wrongs, help me to stop doing them...". So in other to start as a good child of God, we need to ask God to cleanse us first of all from all evil thoughts, words and actions then we should ask the Holy Spirit our friend to help us put an end to it so that out spoken words and unspoken thoughts would be pleasing even to God. We can also pray for our friends and relatives we know are guilty of such so that they can control the way they think and talk in line with God's way and we can all be One Big God's family when we get to Heaven! God bless you.