Think about it for a minute. Unless you live in a very protected social environment, you realize that cursing is about as ordinary and everyday as it gets.
It is part of my day, not me cursing, but being around a group of people who for most of them cursing is an accepted norm. Not a thought is given to it.
But why do we curse? Why do we fling words out that rail against God, or each other, or often just for sport and entertainment? What do these words accomplish?
And, why do people use God’s name to curse? Why is Jesus Christ to some a curse word? Why is God accused of damning so many things? Why is God’s name used in all of this?
It’s crazy how so many live on the edge, cursing God and using his name to curse other people and everything else under the sun, and we are oblivious to the danger.
What are we expecting to accomplish when we curse the president or our ex-wife, especially when that person is not in our presence?
They can’t hear us. What good or evil will it do?
Our words, even cast out into the air with no particular audience, have a purpose and meaning.
We fling them out in anger and bitterness. We want to do some damage, drag somebody down, inflict pain.
But this is preposterous. There is often no one there. No one hears our comments about the “blanking b#$!@.”
Nothing happens, just words in the air. It doesn’t mean anything.
Or does it?
(Matthew 12:36 NIV) But I tell you that men will have to give account on the day of judgment for every careless word they have spoken.
