Power of words.
Shalom.
Words when spoken, manifest. We see what we care to SEE. If you were to consider your speech, your thoughts of the heart, your WORDS to be something [greater] than words, but actual {WILL}, would you consider speech more carefully?
When we picture God, consider what we may know of God, contemplate what we have read of God, we often understand His Creation to be spoken Words. After all we read in the very first chapter of Genesis that God spoke and then there was light, the heavens and the earth.
There many great teachers of the past and the present, that speak on the very subject of Words. To imitate God, one must master the inner workings, one must master his or her speech.
To speak is very natural, it is our nature. Our eyes see, our ears hear. We run with our mouths, we are quick to react, respond, comment, we are quick to SPEAK. How many times a day, do you find yourself talking just because you can? Not because it is absolutely important that you do, but because it is such a natural thing to do?
The very things in which you see and hear, they all leave impressions on the heart of your Soul. Do you honestly feel that its a one way street? That it is only you who feels the crashing of the personal insults, directed gossip and slander?You are responsible for all that departs the gateways of your being. When we take a hammer to a wall we can see the destruction taking place, so why should we assume that spoken words are any different.
The study of Mussar [Jewish Ethics] touches on the soul trait of Roshen Hara [literary bad mouth].
Imagine the transformation of the world within you and the world around if you could one day, comprehend this teaching. This is something I pray for all of us.
Meditation is a great way and a step in the right direction, if you so desire to one day, take charge from within. Our evil inclination loves nothing better than to wittingly take us off the right course. We rationalize and so we are found guilty. Very often I’ve heard one person or another say, ‘I’m not gossiping, I’m sharing something personal.’ Gossip, slander or even truth, can and will take the lives of three people. The one speaking, he that is being spoken about, and lastly, the one sitting by willingly to hear.
Gossip columns, rather they are magazines, television, radio or public speaking, are nothing less then human slim. How is it that we have come so far with advancements of all sorts, but human nature continues to decline. Do you find yourself sitting attentively to any of the above? Do you stop what’s more important so that you can clearly hear what’s be spoken about another? If you even remotely said yes, you have some work to do.
Are you willing to go further, ascend higher? Read and then read again the ways of HASHEM. Contemplate His ways.
Jeremiah 9: 22 – 25 – Thus said HASHEM: Let not the wise man glorify himself with his wisdom, and let not the strong man glorify himself with his strength, let not the rich man glorify himself with his wealth. For only with this may one glorify himself – contemplating and knowing Me, for I am HASHEM Who does kindness, justice and righteousness in the land, for in these is My desire – the word of HASHEM.
Throughout scripture we read the spoken Word [Will] of HASHEM. Here is another scripture. – Isaiah 55: 8 – 11- For My thoughts are not your thoughts and your ways are not My ways – the word of HASHEM. As high as the heavens over the earth, so are My ways higher than your ways, and My thoughts than your thoughts. For just as the rain and snow descend from heaven and not return there, rather it waters the earth and causes it to produce and sprout, and gives seed to the sower and food to the eater, so shall be My word that emanates from My mouth, it will not return to Me unfulfilled unless it will have accomplished what I desired and brought success where I sent it.
Here we have the power of words. The power of Will. Prior to the coming of Abraham and Sarah, God searched the airwaves of mans thoughts and words. Abraham a faithful seed and Sarah the choice vine. The search was now over. Abram had the attention of the mighty El Shaddai. Why did he have the attention of God? Because he asked, he searched, he denounced the ways of his father and the society of others.
What will you do today?
Shalom
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