“Death and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof.”
The Tongue
This proverb names comprehensive power here, death and life, worth holding as genuine, honest acknowledgment that words are not neutral, decorative additions to communication, but actually, genuinely powerful, capable of producing outcomes as significant as this verse’s own named extremes.
Notice they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof, worth examining directly, this verse suggesting whatever you actually, habitually love speaking, whichever direction, death- producing or life-producing, will genuinely, eventually produce corresponding fruit, worth taking seriously as real, ongoing consequence.
This is worth applying honestly to your own habitual speech patterns, not merely occasional slips, but the actual, regular fruit your tongue’s habitual direction has been genuinely producing, worth examining directly, whether this fruit currently reflects more death or more life, honestly assessed.
Consider today what fruit your own habitual speech has actually been producing, in your relationships, in your own heart, and examine honestly whether you have been loving the death-producing direction more than the life-producing one, this proverb’s own sober claim worth taking with genuine seriousness.
Guard Your Words
- Examine honestly what fruit your own habitual speech has actually been producing.
- Consider whether you have been loving death-producing or life-producing words more.
- Speak one specific, deliberately life-producing word today, testing this proverb’s own claim.
Prayer
Lord, death and life are in the power of my tongue. Let me examine honestly what fruit my own habitual speech has been producing, and turn deliberately toward life. Amen.
Carry this today
Words are not neutral. They produce real fruit, in the direction habitually loved.