DDD: Blessing or Bitterness: The Power of Cursing Words and Praising Lips

A Devotion for your drive into work: 

If the tongue can set the course of life on fire—for good or evil—what ripple effect are curses, angry words, or bitterness sending into personal relationships and local culture today?

Romans 3:14 and Psalm 10 acknowledge the prevalence and danger of cursing, slander, and oppression, especially from prideful or deceitful hearts estranged from God’s reality. James 3 warns that the tongue is “a fire…the very world of iniquity,” able to both bless God and curse people made in His image—“from the same mouth come both blessing and cursing.” Christians are called to wisdom from above, which is peaceable, pure, full of mercy, and transforms speech into a vehicle for truth and blessing. The devotion closes with an honest prayer, asking God to cleanse all careless or bitter words and empower every believer to bring hope and peace into their community by the words spoken today.

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