Environmental Assessment?

If you read the paper, watch the news or interact with any form of the mass media you will understand that “the environment” is a hot topic. Whether it is carbon trading, global warming or water conservation everyone seems to have put a lot of time and effort into their theories for fixing the problem. We know that we don’t want to live in a polluted, filthy environment yet so many people live their lives in that state. Of course I’m not talking about “physical pollution” but pollution of the heart, soul, mind and spirit. Many times we let negativity; doubt, anger and bitterness fill our minds and mouths. Christ said that He came “to bring life and life to the full” yet that life can be choked out by pollution.

In Genesis chapter one we see God creating the universe and one phrase appears eight times “God said”. Why? Why did God create the universe, this environment, by speaking? He is Almighty, All powerful God, the alpha and the omega, the beginning and the end. Surely He could have come up with a more spectacular, creative way to form the universe. However I believe that there is an amazing principle that God wants to communicate to us. Just as He created the environment by His spoken word, we create our environment by the words we speak. God did say “let us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness. So just as when “God said” something was created, every time we speak we are creating.

So then the question is; what environment are your words creating? Are they words that bring that crystal clean mountain air, the type that when you breathe it in you feel as if anything is possible? Or do your words hang over you like a cloud of smog, choking life, bringing defeat, failure and disappointment? Proverbs 18:21 says “death and life are in the power of the tongue”.

For your family, business, home or ministry the words spoken in conversation, in prayer even in solitude create your world. Let’s commit to being people who let the Word fill our hearts. Then out of that abundance will flow words which create a positive, hope filled environment wherever we are.

Ps Marty I’Anson