Greater than even the authority of a man over his wife is that of a father over his children. This type of authority is actually an extension of the eternal relationship of Father to Son within the Godhead. Just as a father’s blessing has immense potential for good, so a father’s curse has potential also. A father may speak words to a child in anger that were not deliberately intended as a curse, but nevertheless have exactly the same effect. Bitter angry words whether spoken by a husband to his wife or a father to his child are usually the outcome of a growing inner tension. I’m sure you all have experienced this as I have. It is like a whistling kettle on the stove. At first, the tension builds us inside without any outward indication, but then the water inside reaches the boiling point and the steam is expelled and the whistle is blown. After that, is there any way to recall that whistle? No! The only remedy is to take the kettle off the hot stove and cool the water down. For the Christian, this means turning to God with an URGENT, inward prayer: “Lord, I’m losing control, but I yield my spirit to You. Please take control!” If we don’t utilize God’s help, the irritation and anger continually builds up inside and then they come out, like steam, in hurtful, wounding words. The curse that accompanies them is like the whistle. Once it has been uttered, there is no way to recall it. Then, the only solution is to recognize that a curse has been uttered, and seek God’s help to revoke it! What about things we say about ourselves? Can we unwittingly bring a curse upon ourselves? The words we speak at times like this are like boomerangs that come flying back to strike the one who spoke them. In Matthew 12:36-37, Jesus gives a solemn warning about the danger of words carelessly spoken: “But I say to you that for every idle word men may speak, they will give an account of it in the Day of Judgment.” Are you seeing this as I am? Here, Jesus focuses on “idle words”—that is, words spoken carelessly, without premeditation. After saying something stupid in anger we often give the excuse, “But I didn’t really mean it.” Yet it is precisely against words of this kind, that we don’t really mean, that He warns us about. The fact that the speaker “doesn’t really mean them” does not in any way minimize or cancel the effect of their words nor does it release them of their accountability. We can be easily caught in a snare by this kind without realizing it, but to get free demands the conscious application of biblical principles. We need to remember that God takes our words seriously, even when we ourselves do not!
Posted on: Wed, 18 Sep 2013 15:24:59 +0000
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