Cursing – Swearing and Speaking Evil into Someone Else's Life.

 

James 3:10 “From the same mouth come blessing and cursing. My brothers, these things ought not to be so.”

I teach at High School, and I have noticed that there are an increasing number of students who swear and curse constantly. Associated with this is the tendency for there to be an inability to control their emotions at the same time.

So, you have a youngster who swears incessantly and who also provokes other students to make comment about the profanity or to respond to the content of it. The result being that the swearing youngster loses their temper and literally curses at the person who responded to their terrible swearing.

What this amounts to is that people do not seem to realise that words have power. If you doubt this then consider the number of people who have committed suicide because of bullying through social media. Those who say “Sticks and stones will break my bones, but words will never hurt me” are really misapprehending the import of the situation. Words are powerful and can literally kill.

This is a short message so I will come to the point now. We need to teach our young people and, if necessary, our older people too, that when they curse and swear. That they are speaking evil into the lives of those around them. Their words have power, and they need to be careful what they speak out of their mouths. Far better to be kind to others and offer a kind word to someone else than to utter profanities.

1 Peter 3:10 “For Whoever desires to love life and see good days, let him keep his tongue from evil and his lips from speaking deceit.”