There are sure alot of words anymore. I cannot keep up with all of them. Think of all the words that you now use that you didn’t even know two or three years ago. Twitter? Texting? blog? Google? Catscan? I saw on YouTube (a new word…) that there are now five times more english words than Shakespeare had access too. What will happen when China becomes the number one english speaking country in the world? Will english words then expand even more rapidly?
Think of how words change meaning: What do you think of when you hear words like tag, post, byte, send, receive, we, wii, wee-wee? How about “crash,” “down,” “boot,” “window,” “net”?
Japan has a fiber optic (words with new meanings…) cable that can send 14 trillion bits per second down a single strand of fiber. Think of that…and ask yourself, “what information, where is it going, and why?
The Sermon on the Mount has very few words by comparison. The amount of information it contains is very small. The whole text could shoot through a fiber optic cable faster than my brain can tell my fingers to type the first letter of it.
Yet it is still life changing, still world impacting, and still brutally honest and inspiring.
To have these words of Jesus penetrate and download to the hard drive of my heart I just need to remove all my self-imposed pop-up blockers and remove the firewall of my stubborn heart and hit receive. And it’s wireless too. I can get it anywhere if I want.
Jesus’ words. In an information drowning world, with bits of bits coming at us faster and faster, do they matter? Can they get through? Is his net bigger?
The words I need to hear and understand is that Jesus Loves me….
Amen to that. Those simple words really do need to be our under-standing, supporting us everyday.
and, I love Jesus.
“WORDS”——–I’m just relieved and thankful that He knows my “HEART”–even when I stumble for “words”, or “words” come out all wrong, and others misunderstand. By His Spirit, He intercedes even my groanings!—and He speaks to my heart–answers my heart—and ministers to my soul—in ways much more than I could ask or imagine! He’s my friend, my savior, my comforter!!!!!!