Words are fuel for emotions, just as thoughts are. As a matter of fact, our words give our thoughts verbal expression. It’s bad enough to think something negative, but verbalizing negativity makes it even worse. The effect it has on us is inestimable. Oh, how I wish that everyone in the world understood the power of their words and would learn to discipline what comes out of their mouths. Words are containers for power, and as such they have a direct effect on our emotions. Words fuel good moods or bad moods; in fact, they fuel our attitudes and have a huge impact on our lives and relationships.
Words are containers for power, and as such they have a direct effect on our emotions.
A man has joy in making an apt answer, and a word spoken at the right moment - how good it is!
In Proverbs 21:23 we are told that if we guard our mouths and tongues, we will keep ourselves from trouble. Proverbs also tells us that “death and life are in the power of the tongue, and they who indulge in it shall eat the fruit of it [for death or life]” (18:21). The message cannot be any clearer than that. If we speak positive and good things, then we minister life to ourselves. We increase the emotion of joy. However, if we speak negative words, then we minister death and misery to ourselves; we increase our sadness, and our moode plummets.
Why not help yourself first thing every day? Don’t get up each morning and wait to see how you feel and then rehearse every feeling to anyone who will listen. If you do that, you are giving your emotions authority over you. You become the servant of your emotions, and that is definitely not a good position to be in.
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