HOW MUCH IS YOUR WORD WORTHY?
The week started on a good note, but with challenges as usual, one writer once said if you are not facing challenges means you are not growing. Sometime last year I went into a deal with a friend, to start a business. We all were fired up ready to take this new business into the world. We even started thinking of franchising the business into the rest of South Africa. As we started I guess the expectations on both parties were high. I can only speak for myself, I saw the business doing well [in my creative mind not in reality]I saw the brand moving forward, when my partner could not come up with the cash on time as agreed , I was so sure it would happen because I had their word that the money would come, I personally went on to spent more than I would have normally and today the rest is history. As I thought about this issue I have wondered how I could have gotten myself into this mess. Then it dawned on me that, real reason was because I had their word and I trusted their word. This made me realize how powerful the word is.
The Bible in Ecclesiastes 5 vs. 2-3 tells us not to be so hasly with our words. Countries have been destroyed by words, wars have been started by words, and lives have been destroyed by words. As an individual how many lives have you destroyed because of your lack of fulfilling your word? In my case I have a debt that runs in hundreds thousands rands because I had a word from someone I trusted. I have been checking my own life on how many people I have promised, I gave them my word and I failed to deliver.
Why is a word so powerful? I believe the reason, why our words are so powerful and not just destroy but build people is because in the beginning God gave a word and everything He spoke came to pass. He later on said let us form men in our own image and he gave the men the power of the word. He also told us to create our world with our tongue, He told us to prophecy our lives according to what we want to see. As he made us and gave us dominion over everything on earth, our word is very powerful. As in the book the fourth dimension pastor Cho said anything that we speak bears fruit. What kind of words are we speaking out there? In the diamond deals world there are no documents to be signed [you are trying to guess where I got that one from?] In the Mafia world there are no documents to be signed because their words are their honor.
One of the reason why we give our word when we know we won’t stick to it is because as a people we always want to compare ourselves and want to be of worthy to those we give our word to. One thing I challenge us to do is to examine, what is the basis of our worthiness? Do you feel so pressured to please that you end up saying what you don’t mean. I want to be known, as someone who is worthy their word. I don’t need a document to hold me to my word, laws are made for those who cant keep their words [please don’t stop doing contracts on your deals its very important as not everyone out there can stand for their word!] and they are used in the times when you cant speak for yourself. They are important but your word should mean the world.
If we are to have successes in life we need good relationships, and these are built by spoken words. It is therefore essential that we breakthrough and become a model of good relationships in our sphere of influence. We are either part of the problem or part of the solution; we either make our world worse better or worse. You alone are responsible for the wrong you do and in the long run, we shape our lives and ourselves. The process never ends until we die, and the choices we make are ultimately our responsibility. So before you speak be mindful and not careless with your promised word, because you just might be costing someone’s life.
POWER THOUGHT
“Beware of no man more than yourself; we carry our worst enemies with us”
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
“The happiness which we receive from ourselves is greater than that which we obtain from our surroundings…the world in which a man lives shapes itself chiefly by the way in which he looks at it and speaks to it”
So let us pay extra attention to what we say about ourselves, about others and to others for surely as night and day comes one day we will all account for our spoken words.