Words Have Power

The other day my devotional was talking about God's word, here's what it had to say...
We humans are made in the image of God, which means we're created to create things, just as our creator does. were made to play. Words are cheap, which is why it's so easy to treat them casually. It's easy to write emails and text message each other without really paying attention to the words we're using. But we must never forget that words have power. In ancient times, to know the name of something was to have power over it, which is why Adam could name the animals in Genesis 2:19-20 but Jacob was not told the name of the angel who wrestled with him in Genesis 32:22-30. One of the ways we try to have power over things is by labeling them with adjectives: poor, rich, smart, slow, geeky..etc.---including the word Christian. For some reason we think that if we can discern whether or not something is "christian", then we've got it figured out, then we know whether it's safe. The word Christian is not meant to be an adjective. It's a noun. So inanimate objects aren't christian. We are. how does this change the way we use that word?- Sarah Arthur

This got me thinking about how much power words have in our lives they can: hurt, encourage, anger...and so on. The bible says that words are best used to encourage and lift people up, i would have to agree with this. In my life i make it my goal to always be an encouragement to my friends and the people around me, ultimately it's not about me anyway, it's about God and he get's the glory not me. Here's what the bible has to say about words-

"Fix these words of mine in your hearts and minds; tie them as symbols on your hands and bind them on your foreheads"- Deuteronomy 11:18


"But my mouth would encourage you;  comfort from my lips would bring you relief"- Job 16:5

"Therefore encourage one another and build each other up, just as in fact you are doing"- 1 Thessalonians 5:11 

Genesis 1:26-27 says...
 Then God said, “Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness, so that they may rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, over the livestock and all the wild animals, and over all the creatures that move along the ground.”So God created mankind in his own image,in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them.