Wrong language

10 January 2011

Proverbs 8:8-9 All the words of my mouth are righteous; there is nothing twisted or crooked in them. They are all straight to him who understands and right to those who find knowledge.

On Friday we went to visit in Frankfort in the Orange Free State, and so I did the daily encouragement diligently and transferred all the address lists onto the laptop. When it came to send it I tried everything that I knew to send it, nothing I did worked. Yesterday I saved it onto a memory stick and came to email it from the desk top, and then found that the desk top could not read it because it was in Office 2010 and the desk top was in Office 2003.

Language and communication are sometimes very strange, we keep on changing our language and its definitions to suit ourselves and then find that we cannot understand each other anymore. In the same way we use language to communicate, but if you understand a word differently to what I understand it, then we may come to a different conclusion and the result is that there has been no adequate communication. Failed communication results in more damage to ourselves than we could ever imagine. We then should take time in selecting our language, our words, our attitudes so that we say what we mean and mean what we say.

Be encouraged today to make sure that we speak the same language to each other.

David

Point to ponder:  Our words are important.

Question to consider:  Do you speak before you think?

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