YOU EAT YOUR WORDS

Tuesday 7 January

but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die.” Genesis 1:17 (NKJV)

Death and life is in the power of the tongue and they that love it will eat the fruit thereof Proverbs 18:21 (KJV)

When we look at the book of Genesis I think it is important to remember that the author Moses had not even been born yet. So how did he receive all the information to write it? It was from 2 sources. It was most likely handed down by oral folklore or written eyewitness accounts.The second way was by the visions of the Spirit.

There are Bible scholars who get into theological arguments about what type of fruit it was that Adam and Eve ate when in all reality it is a ‘fruitless’ exercise. In other words, fruit is a metaphor for words.

The tree of the knowledge of good and evil was not created by God. How do we know this? Because everything God created and made in the Genesis account was ‘good’ and ‘very good’. A tree that contained evil is not ‘good’ or ‘very good’. So who created it? Nobody. It was a metaphor for man’s ability to choose to accept or reject the tree that’s life who was Jesus.

So the fruit produced by man’s choice was words. In the case of Adam and Eve, it was words that committed high treason against God. Adam i.e. man, exercised his dominion outside of God’s sovereignty and disobedience was the result produced by listening to and acting upon Lucifer’s words.

‘By your words you shall be justified and by your words you shall be condemned’, judged. In this case it caused a spiritual seperation between God and man that was instigated by Adam. Words are so powerful that speaking the right words is one half of the equation to cementing your eternity in Christ.

The other half is believing. When your heart and your words align salvation happens. Jesus said in Luke 6:45 that ‘a good man out of the good treasure of his heart, brings forth good things and an evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart brings forth evil things; for out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks’.

What was the good treasure here? Words. What was the evil treasure? Also words. A treasure is something that you store up that is precious or valuable to you. No wonder Proverbs 18:21 says about words that ‘they that love it will eat the fruit thereof’. What does this mean? Whatever words you hold as precious and valuable are the ones you will love to indulge in or eat because they are the words that you have stored up as treasures in your heart.

For example, if you think of a particular sickness them all the words associated with that sickness will be in you waiting to come out. If you continue to talk about that sickness, you unknowingly begin to develop a taste for it. The more you speak it the more in abundance it will become.

What would be the cure? Stop talking sickness and start declaring all the words in the scriptures that tell you that you were already healed and make that the abundance of your heart/mind to ensure that words of healing come out of your mouth which will activate your miracle.

Apostle James talks about the tongue. The primary reason we have a tongue is to form words. He tells us in chapter 3 that we need to learn to ‘tame our tongue’. Another way to say it is ‘watch our words’.

In Biblical language, eating is a metaphor for using words. In the Old Testament and in the gospels we are shown the Passover where they eat the bread. Some think this is communion but there is no scriptural premise for it.

Remember when Jesus said ‘unless you eat my flesh and drink my blood you have no part with me?’ He wasn’t talking about continuing with Passover, He was saying that you eat my flesh and drink my blood when my gospel is shared. How do we partake of his body and blood now? Through the teaching and preaching of the Word of His grace.

Whether we realised or not, we eat our words. Make sure they are words of life and not death.

‘Taste and see that the Lord is good.’ Just some food for thought.APPLICATION

Make sure that you are serving up the right meals of words to consume this year by basing your eating plan strictly on the recipe of the Word of God.