Your words are powerful
Chloe Irvine,
1st Oct 2019
Tags:
Life
Blog
Insecurity
People's opinions
Self-worth
There is a weighty significance in words. I am a words girl. More than most I would assume.
I love words: I love reading words, writing words, and listening to people who are able to articulate things with more emotion, passion and clarity than most.
Words are beauty to my soul, they are also immensely powerful.
Think about it. A stranger passes you on the street and compliments you on your perfect hair, your great coat, or even your style.
Words hold weight.
There is something special about a compliment that comes from an absolute stranger. They could have never said anything, but they did. Their words hold weight.
Likewise, when someone speaks a negative word about you or to you, their words have power.
Sometimes it’s not even their actual words but more so the words we imagine they are thinking inside their head. You know what I mean? Someone gives you the up-down glance and you have already come up with their entire internal dialogue before their eyes make it back to yours.
Words, good or bad, begin to shape your heart.
If we agree on the power of words, let me ask you this question: What words are feeding your soul?
Growing up, I was always the quiet girl.
I remember going to my first class.
I remember my first day at school. The dreaded first day. Everyone was unbelievably nervous and I was no different. I remember going to my first class and seeing everyone I was going to spend the next five years with.
I found a seat and sat down beside a girl. I thought that this was it. Best friends. Little did I know, I was so wrong.
Long story short, my high school years were not fun. I became a victim of bullying. Everything that was said to me, I believed and as a result, I tried to change to fit in. But that never fixed anything.
What I’m trying to say, is that what I was allowing to feed my very soul was the toxic words from those who labelled me.
I began to believe that I wasn’t good enough.
I began to believe every negative word. I began to believe that I wasn’t good enough. Nothing in my life would ever be good enough, how I looked would never be good enough.
The words that were shaping my reality were far from words of truth.
Throughout my teens, I read the words of truth in the Bible, but I never allowed those words to define me. I believed those words defined everyone else, but me.
The words I allowed to shape me led to a broken heart.
I spent those years trying to become the girl I thought everyone would accept me as, rather than becoming the girl I was created to be.
The words I allowed to shape me led to a broken heart, debilitating insecurity, and crippling anxiety.
Those people told me: I wasn’t good enough, smart enough, pretty enough, or talented enough. But in the Bible, it says 'You are altogether beautiful, my darling; there is no flaw in you' (Song of Solomon 4:7).
Hearing the wrong words will tell you that you need to strive and change who you are to get where you want to go in life. But the Bible says 'Be still, and know that I am God' (Psalms 46:10).
For I [God] know the plans I have for you.
Negative words from others will encourage you to follow the crowd to try and fit in. But the Bible says '"For I [God] know the plans I have for you, plans to prosper you and not to harm you. Plans to give you a hope and a future" (Jeremiah 29:11).
Words will inevitably shape our lives it is just a matter of which words we will choose to plant in our hearts.
What words carry more weight in your life, the words of others or the words of God?
