God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light. (Gen. 1:3)

He spoke.

His words went forth as a divine edit,

and there was light.

By the power of His word, over the next five days, our world and the life upon it were created.  And at the end of each day, God reflected on what He had created,

                “And God saw that it was good.” (Gen. 1)

Then at the end of the week,

“God looked over everything he had made; it was so good, so very good!” (Gen. 1:31 MSG)

The work He had accomplished by the power of His words was not just good, but very good.  And, therein lies the challenge for us:  to use our words to create what is good, indeed, what is very good.

Certainly our words do not have the omnipotent power to create light or to hang the sun, moon or stars in the sky, but we do have the power to use our words to speak life or death into the lives of others.

“Words kill, words give life; they’re either poison or fruit – you choose.” Prov. 18:21 MSG

My words have the power:

to criticize, to demean, to wound OR to encourage, to comfort, to show love.

The desire of my heart is that each day I will choose to use the power of my words to speak life into the lives of others.  At the end of each day, I want to be able to declare what God declared – that what was “created” by my words was good, that the way I chose to use my words was “so very good.”  

Perhaps the message of this photo can help inspire us to speak “life” – to speak words that taste good!