Idle Words

I believe we all would do well to attend to the words that come out of our mouths (or keyboards).  Too many Christians supply sanitized (baptized) words for vulgarity and blasphemy in their vocabulary.  I suppose that young people that grow up in this sanitized environment do not know the real equivalents yet, but God does.  And he says we’ll answer for every idle word we speak.

I do not think that their is anything wrong with expressing pain, anguish, frustration, etc., with groans, or moans, or other sounds.  The problem is when we put vulgar or blasphemous words and ideas with those feelings.

Now, for one example that I hope will get us all thinking before we open our mouths:

• Gosh-darn
• Doggone
• Dadgum, etc.

Now if we are sincerely thinking that the next word is damned by God, or should be God-damned, then just use the real words.  If not, we shouldn’t baptize or sanitize our blasphemy.

The same goes for stink, crap, freakin’, jeso-pete, and many others.

Matthew 12:36  But I say unto you, That every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment.