BIBLE COMMENTARY/Psalm 19: 14
PSALM 19: 14 – Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in Your sight, O Lord, my strength and my Redeemer.
– Humans always want to be lucky. For Christians, that means we all want to be blessed by God.
– For young people, your language is one of important factors deciding that you are respected by others or not, as it was indicated in 1Timothy 4: 12.
– Your language is also a factor in receiving God’s blessings. If your words are respectful, honest, polite, proper and wisely used, you will be blessed by God because of them. But if your words are vice, disrespectful, dishonest, rude, filthy and foolishly used, you will not received God’s blessings but instead you could be punished because of them (Matthew 12: 37)
– Therefore young people must learn how to speak properly and use words carefully.
– In the present time, people are so vice with their language and they use filthy words all the time everywhere, at school, in workplace, on television and in news. Disappointedly, they seems so proud with that kind of language that they used a lot of them even in music and when communicating to each others.
– We Christians should try our best not to speak like them (Romans 12: 2, James 3: 2, Colossians 4: 6).
– On the other hand, when we hear someone talking, we can be able to know his/her personality and characters from the words they used (Job 12: 11, Matthew 12: 34)
– People can hide their personality or inclination for a while by some disguises in actions, but eventually it will come out clearly by the words they use, especially when they are excited or satisfied. That’s when we know their true intentions (examples).
QUOTED VERSES:
JOB 12: 11 – Does not the ear test words and the mouth taste its food?
MATTHEW 12: 34 – Brood of vipers! How can you, being evil, speak good things? For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.
MATTHEW 12: 37 – For by your words you will be justified, and by your words you will be condemned.
ROMANS 12: 2 – And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God.
COLOSSIANS 4: 6 – Let your speech always be with grace, seasoned with salt, that you may know how you ought to answer each one.
1TIMOTHY 4: 12 – Let no one despise your youth, but be an example to the believers in word, in conduct, in love, in spirit, in faith, in purity.
JAMES 3: 2 – For we all stumble in many things. If anyone does not stumble in word, he is a perfect man, able also to bridle the whole body