As the Spirit is teaching me about speaking blessings, I didn't anticipate what is happening to me. With my newly developing focus, the starkest of contrasts is being revealed between the standard I have previously had for so many of my words.
When did I allow innocent teasing to become mocking?
When did I slip into criticizing instead of simply correcting?
How could I have allowed such tones to underlie seemingly "appropriate mother statements"?
The wise woman builds her house,
but with her own hands the foolish one tears hers down. Proverbs 14:1
In all my "wisdom" I have spoken in such harshness, to make sure they understood how serious the issue was.
In all my "wisdom" I have spoken such criticism, disguised in my mind as correction.
When the standard for my words is held up against the Lord's Spoken Blessings, I am convicted to the depths of my soul. I have used my words too often to wound and curse.
I am so incredibly thankful for the Lord's Mercy in teaching me about how to redeem all of my words from here on. But He doesn't stop there. He allows the redemption of the words I have already spoken. All of them. I can, through the Lord's Blessings, be a conduit of healing many of the wounds I have inflicted.
This is changing everything! May I never return to the Egypt of careless, thoughtless, damaging words.
He makes all things new!
How Glorious is my God!
Previous posts about Spoken Blessings:
1. Spoken Blessings
2. Spoken Blessings, Part II
3. But How Do We Actually Speak Blessings?
The next post about Spoken Blessings:
5. Chapter 6: Blessing Our Children
6. A Light Bulb Flips On
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