Communicating.

Communication.

The ability to communicate is a marvelous thing. Just ask those who can't communicate easily. Read the story or watch the movie about Helen Keller (worth watching). The story is based on the true life of Helen Keller a deaf and blind girl who learns to communicate through the efforts of her teacher Anne Sullivan. It really is quite something to watch the dawning light of understanding go on in Helen's mind when she finally puts two and two together and comprehends that Anne is using sign language in her hand to spell the word 'water'. When that dawning moment occurred, Helen couldn't stop asking what everything was around her, every object had a name and she wanted to know them all. Her life took on so much more meaning with the ability to communicate.

We take communication for granted until we come down with a really bad sore throat and it hurts to talk, or until something else occurs to prevent us from speaking- dental work, throat surgery, a broken jaw, etc. When these things happen and we can't speak we find other ways to communicate. We write things (type them) we get our message across.

Communication is universal, it is something all humans do in one way or another unless medically, mentally, physically incapacitated and unable to do so. The frustration of a person unable to communicate is very understandable.

Unless you're a recluse, on your own but not a recluse, or otherwise inclined not to talk with others, most people communicate with others every single day. A phone call, texting, online messaging, we communicate all the time- even often with complete strangers especially in the online world. We go to doctors, stores, have various appointments with others. We communicate.

The Bible has a lot to say about using our ability to communicate in the wrong way. Let's read a few of the things.

Eph 4:29  Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers. 

Eph 4:31  Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice: 

Eph 5:4  Neither filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor jesting, which are not convenient: but rather giving of thanks. 

Psa 5:9  For there is no faithfulness in their mouth; their inward part is very wickedness; their throat is an open sepulchre; they flatter with their tongue. 

Psa 52:2  Thy tongue deviseth mischiefs; like a sharp razor, working deceitfully. 

Psa 73:8  They are corrupt, and speak wickedly concerning oppression: they speak loftily. 

Psa 73:9  They set their mouth against the heavens, and their tongue walketh through the earth. 

Mat 12:34  O generation of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh. 

Mat 12:35  A good man out of the good treasure of the heart bringeth forth good things: and an evil man out of the evil treasure bringeth forth evil things. 

Mat 12:36  But I say unto you, That every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment. 

Mat 12:37  For by thy words thou shalt be justified, and by thy words thou shalt be condemned.

Rom 3:13  Their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips: 

Rom 3:14  Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness

1Co 15:33  Be not deceived: evil communications corrupt good manners. 

Col 3:8  But now ye also put off all these; anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy communication out of your mouth. 

Col 3:9  Lie not one to another, seeing that ye have put off the old man with his deeds

Col 4:6  Let your speech be alway with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man. 

Jas 3:2  For in many things we offend all. If any man offend not in word, the same is a perfect man, and able also to bridle the whole body. 

Jas 3:3  Behold, we put bits in the horses' mouths, that they may obey us; and we turn about their whole body. 

Jas 3:4  Behold also the ships, which though they be so great, and are driven of fierce winds, yet are they turned about with a very small helm, whithersoever the governor listeth. 

Jas 3:5  Even so the tongue is a little member, and boasteth great things. Behold, how great a matter a little fire kindleth! 

Jas 3:6  And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity: so is the tongue among our members, that it defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire of hell. 

Jas 3:7  For every kind of beasts, and of birds, and of serpents, and of things in the sea, is tamed, and hath been tamed of mankind: 

Jas 3:8  But the tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.

2Pe 2:18  For when they speak great swelling words of vanity, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through much wantonness, those that were clean escaped from them who live in error. 

Jud 1:14  And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these, saying, Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousands of his saints, 

Jud 1:15  To execute judgment upon all, and to convince all that are ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds which they have ungodly committed, and of all their hard speeches which ungodly sinners have spoken against him. 

Jud 1:16  These are murmurers, complainers, walking after their own lusts; and their mouth speaketh great swelling words, having men's persons in admiration because of advantage. 

Clearly our ability to communicate is important- life or death important.

More on this tomorrow by the grace of our LORD and SAVIOR JESUS CHRIST now and forever!!!!!!!