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Throughout the Bible, God gives us certain statements that reveal foundational truths we cannot afford to ignore. This verse in Proverbs is one such statement. From the moment we learn how to speak, to the moment we die and leave earth, the sum total of our life is measured solely by what we have said.
Try to grasp the magnitude of this. Nothing is more important than life and death – nothing. It’s the reality of our very existence. We’re born and we die, and everything in between is determined by our words. God has given us the ability to speak our way into eternal life in heaven with the Lord, or into eternal death in the lake of fire forever (John 3:16/Revelation 20:11-15).
Psalms 45:1 tells us that our mouth is the pen of a ready writer. Who is your tongue writing for? God? The devil? Its one or the other, so it would behoove us to really think before we speak. Actually, the whole book of Proverbs highlights the power of the tongue, as does the whole book of James, especially chapter three. What does the Bible tell us about salvation?
The if we confess with our mouth the Lord Jesus, and believe in our heart that God raised Him from the dead as our one and only Savior, we will be saved (Romans 10:9-10). Jesus said that every idle word we speak will be judged one day when we stand before the Lord in heaven (Matthew 12:36).
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