Good Words (Proverbs 12:25)

Heaviness in the heart of man maketh it stoop: but a good word maketh it glad. (Proverbs 12:25)

Did you know that everybody is having a hard time.  Every person in the world is dealing with some type of problem in their lives.  It may be sickness, financial, domestic, work related, oppression, passed experiences, sorrow, worry, failure and the list can go on.  Their problem may be directly related to them in that the situation is in their life or it may result from them dealing with the situation in a loved one's life.  In either case, we all are dealing with issues and according to this passage, it makes our heart stoop or we experience depression.  If we all are dealing with issues, how can we expect to help anybody?  The way we help is with our words.

This proverbs lets us know that our words can make a stooping or depressed heart brighten up or become glad.  We do not need to offer solutions to people's problems, we just need to give them the words that they need.  Galatians 6:1 tells us to bear one another's burdens.  If we speak words to struggling people that convey that they are not alone and that in your heart you are carrying the burden with them, it will bring the support and encouragement that they need and as Homer Alvan Rodeheaver wrote, it will brighten up the corner where they are.

The words that you speak are very powerful.  Saying the right words can build and encourage people while saying the wrong thing or at times saying nothing can be destructive.  Death and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof (Proverbs 18:21).