Thanks to erin MC hammer for the image.

I was introduced to Rush Limbaugh in 1994. A friend of mine and I would ride together to classes and on the days he drove he’d tune in to Rush on his car radio.

Sometimes I agreed with Rush. Sometimes I didn’t.

However, Rush said something once that has stuck with me to this day. He said:

Words mean things.

That’s heavy. I’m going to let you sit on that for a moment. Close your eyes, and whisper that line to yourself. “Words mean things.” I’ll wait.

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Have you ever noticed how words can hurt more than physical pain?

Have you ever noticed that words can build someone up more than wealth or power or prestige or pride?

Words have power.

Need proof? (emphasis mine):

1 First this: God created the Heavens and Earth—all you see, all you don’t see. 2 Earth was a soup of nothingness, a bottomless emptiness, an inky blackness. God’s Spirit brooded like a bird above the watery abyss.

3 God spoke: “Light!” And light appeared.

4 God saw that light was good and separated light from dark.

5 God named the light Day, he named the dark Night.
It was evening, it was morning—

What kind of words do you use? Do you just say the first thing that comes into your head? Or do you weigh your words carefully.

Need more proof that words carry eternal weight? From Matthew 18 (emphasis mine):

18 “Take this most seriously: A yes on earth is yes in heaven; a no on earth is no in heaven. What you say to one another is eternal. I mean this. 19 When two of you get together on anything at all on earth and make a prayer of it, my Father in heaven goes into action.

Words can destroy. Words can heal. Words can repair. Words can rend.

Words are enough to move the Creator God into action.

What will you do with your words today?