Many
stories have been written how the power of words
and persuasion has brought wealth and success to many. Let us learn from the story that follows.
As the story goes, a
group of frogs was traveling through the woods
and two of them fell into a deep pit. All the
other frogs gathered around the pit. When they
saw how deep the pit was, they told the
unfortunate frogs they would never get out. The
two frogs ignored the comments and tried to jump
up out of the pit.
The other frogs kept telling
them to stop, that they were as good as dead.
Finally, one of the frogs took heed to what the
other frogs were saying and simply gave up. He
fell down and died. The other frog continued to
jump as hard as he could. Once again, the crowd
of frogs yelled at him to stop the pain and
suffering and just die. He jumped even harder
and finally made it out.
When he got out, the
other frogs asked him, "Why did you
continue jumping? Didn't you hear
us?" The frog explained to them that
he was deaf. He thought they were encouraging
him the entire time. This story teaches two
lessons:
1.
There is power of life and death in the tongue.
An encouraging word to someone who is down can
lift and help that person up and make it through the
day.
2. A
destructive word to someone who is down can be
what it takes to kill him/her. Be careful of
what you say. Speak life to those who cross your
path.
The
power of words is sometimes hard to
understand that an encouraging word can go such
a long way. Anyone can speak words that tend to
rob another of the spirit to continue in
difficult time. Special is the individual who
will take the time to encourage another and be
special to others.
If
you are facing difficulties in your life,
perhaps it might be a good time to take
inventory of what and how you are speaking. In
his book, The Power of Positive Thinking, Dr.
Norman Vincent Peale tell us how positive
affirmations like, ‘if God is with us, who can
be against us, ‘I can do it’, etc, can work
wonders in how we think. They can change
our attitude towards life. The best lesson I've learned in life is that, most of the time
we cannot change people and things around us
but we can certainly change our attitude towards
them. The way we talk to
and about ourselves can make all the difference
in our happiness. If we would like to see
positive changes in our life by mastering our
mouth, it's time to realize that the answer is
right under our nose!
By Tim Pedrosa
FURTHER STUDY:
James
3:1-18; 1:5; Luke 21:15; Proverbs 18:15-21
Related pages:
The Power of the
Tongue ; Words
Can Heal and Words Can Harm
Kind
words are like honey-sweet to the taste and good for your health.
Proverbs 16:24 My
word that goes out from My mouth; it will not return to Me empty, but
will accomplish what I desire.
~Isaiah
55:11~
You
can know a great deal about a person by
what he says about others.
Every
day, we do what we choose to do.
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Tim |