Language Of Sages

"There are words that wound like a sword, but the tongue of the wise brings healing" (Proverbs 12:18).

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Of many and many difficult things in this world, one of them is to control the language.

When we see something wrong, the tongue scratches and we have to talk something. When someone hates us, we reject our answers and do not think if the other will be hurt or not, after all, he hurt us first. When we see erroneous ideas being spread as if they were truths, we tear the verb, releasing our sincere opinion. It's a lot. Why?

Thinking about these very simple examples, I remember that we need to be more careful with what we are talking about, or better, with the way we use to express our opinion; or, with the words chosen to say what we feel.

"There are words that hurt like a sword", but we are not obliged to use those words. We live in a world where people feel very happy when they get hurt the fellow, but it is not to be like that. Let good examples be imitated, and not bad ones. Being happy to leave someone sad is diabolical, is not healthy and may indicate that we are very far from God, even if we are deceiving ourselves thinking otherwise. The wound caused by a sword can even lead to death, and many have "died" because of misused words. Do you want to be responsible for someone's "death"? I do not!

But the good thing is knowing that it does not need to be like that. If others like to hurt, we do not do the same; if they like to attack, that we do not do the same; if they want the destruction of the like, that we do not do the same thing ... That we are like the wise ones, because they do not like to hurt, but their language "brings healing".