encourage, inspire

Courage and encourage. Inspire and inspiration.

Those words bring many thoughts in to my mind, but the biggest of those is how we use our words. The Bible is verse clear about the things we say and how they are used. Our words are a choice and not an outcome of our situation.

James 3:10 NASB

from the same mouth come both blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not to be this way.

Our words ought to be used for blessing. There are people we encounter every day that need to hear goodness and not pain, blessing and not cursing, encourage and not discourage. Again, that is a choice.

If we live our lives only for ourselves, we will be opportunities to be an inspiration to others. We miss opportunities and blessings and seeing lives changed by the grace of God.

Let your words build up the people you are around. May God fill our words with inspiration. May we see things happen because our encouragement comes from God and to those He so cares about. Remember, God cares about people big time.

Ephesians 4:29 NASB

Let no unwholesome word proceed from your mouth, but only such a word as is good for edification according to the need of the moment, so that it will give grace to those who hear.

Let’s be people encouragement using our resources to build up the people we encounter. The choice is ours.

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