There have been occasions when someone has said something to you that just ripped out your heart. The words they spoke were perhaps hidden behind the pretense of helpful concern, but you understood the person’s real intent. Your reaction may have been a forced smile and a quick retreat to a place of solitude where your could scream, cry or do whatever you do when you need to lick your wounds. Yes, ill spoken words produce wounds that are real. Like poison arrows they pierce our souls often destroying our desire to continue the journey that we have been traveling.
Sometimes people speak without understanding our situation, sometimes on purpose, sometimes in anger, or hate. Sometimes they hurt us just because they are simply ignorant. They mean well, but what they say is completely the worst thing they could possibly add to what we are experiencing..
Maybe all of us are guilty of speaking out of turn regardless of our intent. Here is a little verse that you might find helpful. It might prevent you from having that ugly taste left in your mouth after you have, knowingly or unknowingly, put your foot there.
Set a guard, O Lord, over my mouth, and keep watch over the door of my lips. Psalm 141:3
Sometimes people speak without understanding our situation, sometimes on purpose, sometimes in anger, or hate. Sometimes they hurt us just because they are simply ignorant. They mean well, but what they say is completely the worst thing they could possibly add to what we are experiencing..
Maybe all of us are guilty of speaking out of turn regardless of our intent. Here is a little verse that you might find helpful. It might prevent you from having that ugly taste left in your mouth after you have, knowingly or unknowingly, put your foot there.
Set a guard, O Lord, over my mouth, and keep watch over the door of my lips. Psalm 141:3
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