Refreshing Rain

March 15

Kind words are a creative force, a power that concurs in the building up of all that is good; they are the energy that God uses to shower blessings upon the world. Lawrence G. Lovasik

Kind words don't always trill off our tongue. It's because they aren't in our minds or in our spirits. We tend to be reactive rather than proactive so our minds and spirits formulate their thoughts based on what people say and do to us rather than on our own resolve to allow only the goodness of God's heart to speak through us. It requires a determination on our part to appropriate the creative, powerful force of words in the behalf of the Christ we desire to be reflected in our lives.

Our words and the thoughts from which they emanate are among the most powerful things we possess. This is why the Word admonishes us to prayerfully say before the Lord, "Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in Thy sight, O Lord, my strength and my redeemer," Psalm 19:14. If our words and the meditations from which they spring are acceptable to Jesus, then we can be assured that they will be effective tools in producing the good things He would have us to achieve through them.

May we be so filled with HIS WORD—the truth, the joy, the kindness, the purity, the light, the love (Philippians 4:8) that emanate from Jesus—that our own words will be bathed in the glory of what HE says! When our words are washed in the lovely wellspring from which His wondrous love and kindness emanate, then love and kindness shall pervade the totality of our lives. When that happens, our self-hood will be transformed by the wonder of the perfection of Jesus, and who we are will be transformed by who HE IS! The good that will accrue to us when our being is re-formed into the likeness of His will astound us!

May we surprise ourselves with the wonderful things that can be accomplished in and through us when we simply determine to make His words our own. May we surprise everyone around us when there is nothing they can do or say that can cause an unkind response from us, for we have allowed our lives to be taken over in their entirety by the life of Christ (Luke 6:45). When we have done that, we will no longer indulge words that are not advantageous to the ultimate intention of the heart of Jesus—to bathe all men in the power of His love; to infuse them with the energy that brings His blessings to everyone it touches!

With all my heart I pray the power of God's words of love and truth may ever be on your tongue so the blessings they bring can continually rain down in a refreshing shower upon you.