Words Matter

“You will never realize the significance of words until you realize that the first words spoken were not from man, but from God.” -- Paul David Tripp

So shouldn’t this give some priority order to words? As in, ‘His first, mine second.’ My encouragement to you is several fold:

a) Since He spoke first, let’s let Him speak first every day, and in every situation.
b) Since He put His ‘words’ in The Word (the Bible), let’s spend a meaningful amount of time (i.e., not a 5-minute warm fuzzy devotional that someone else wrote) imbibing His Word daily.
c) Since Jesus was the Word who became life, let’s focus on Him and trust Him daily.
d) Let’s measure every word we speak against His word. Two things would happen: 1) we would say less (and honor God more!) 2) We would speak more truth in more grace.