Proverbs 12:6
The words of the wicked are to lie in wait for blood:
But the mouth of the upright shall deliver them.
Wars, cultural changes and even personal changes always start with words. Much is said about words in the Bible because words conceive in our hearts the ideas that motivate our actions.
In any sphere of society, before any major push in any direction, we are first ideologically trained with the input of words. Before the onset of any war, country’s leaders condition their people with propaganda that will win the support of their citizens. Today, because the digitalization of publishing technology, words are easily spread, ideas easily disseminated. We live in a giant ‘Super Wall-Mart’ of ideas and philosophies where our heads are dizzied with too many choices.
We must guard our hearts and carefully shop our ideas and philosophy. Just like food in the supermarket may seem good, sweet and soft to the taste buds while destructive to our basic body structure, so are ideas. They may seem good, but their real goal is to trap us into their deathlike culture; ideas that are out for our blood. We may now turn to the health section of our giant supermarket. Some food there appears to be good but it costs a fortune, and even though you may pretend to, you really don’t understand all the big words on the label.
The best way is to leave the supermarket altogether. The righteous words that deliver us from this death trap are not sold on shelves competing with the words of the wicked. Musing on our supermarket analogy, I would say, “Go to the source; go to the land where the food is grown by God”. Deliverance from the destructive words and ideas of the wicked is found in the words of the upright. They are found in the words in the Bible, and in those people who live a life loyal to its principle; in those people who did not accept their godliness to be soiled by marketing practices.
The words of the wicked are to lie in wait for blood:
But the mouth of the upright shall deliver them.
Wars, cultural changes and even personal changes always start with words. Much is said about words in the Bible because words conceive in our hearts the ideas that motivate our actions.
In any sphere of society, before any major push in any direction, we are first ideologically trained with the input of words. Before the onset of any war, country’s leaders condition their people with propaganda that will win the support of their citizens. Today, because the digitalization of publishing technology, words are easily spread, ideas easily disseminated. We live in a giant ‘Super Wall-Mart’ of ideas and philosophies where our heads are dizzied with too many choices.
We must guard our hearts and carefully shop our ideas and philosophy. Just like food in the supermarket may seem good, sweet and soft to the taste buds while destructive to our basic body structure, so are ideas. They may seem good, but their real goal is to trap us into their deathlike culture; ideas that are out for our blood. We may now turn to the health section of our giant supermarket. Some food there appears to be good but it costs a fortune, and even though you may pretend to, you really don’t understand all the big words on the label.
The best way is to leave the supermarket altogether. The righteous words that deliver us from this death trap are not sold on shelves competing with the words of the wicked. Musing on our supermarket analogy, I would say, “Go to the source; go to the land where the food is grown by God”. Deliverance from the destructive words and ideas of the wicked is found in the words of the upright. They are found in the words in the Bible, and in those people who live a life loyal to its principle; in those people who did not accept their godliness to be soiled by marketing practices.
Let us go back to the Source: to the True and Righteous One, Yehoshua who has the Words of eternal life, not death.
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