backWORDZ

We live in a backWORDZ way. We're sinners, but we've been forgiven. We make mistakes, but yet we're redeemed. We fall short, but we're loved. We lack, but we have enough. We falter but we have a steadfast pace set for us in Him. We say things we don't mean and mean things we don't say. We ask for things and then complain about them when we get them. We are greedy even though we have an abundance. We are selfish, and will not serve. We are served, but will not offer gratitude. We are bent on revenge and being pleased. We are not quick to forgive or quick to be silent, but filled with hatred and violently loud about our own opinions. We shed tears of both joy and sorrow. We hope for tomorrow yet we know it may be filled with the same disappointments and troubles of today.

We live in the backWORDZ world.

But, one thing I choose to cling to is a belief, a hope, a promise, a faith that despite the backWORDZ way in which we are destined to live, ONE DAY all that is backwords will be made right. All that is so upside down will be turned around. All that is lost will be found and tears that are shed will be wiped away. All that is empty will be made whole. All that is old will be made new. All that is torn apart will be restored. All that is burdened will be lightened. All that is held captive and bound in chains will be loosed. All that is hidden will be uncovered. All that is fallen will be rebuilt. All that has died will be given new life. All that is will be restored.

This hope, this promise that I cling to, THIS is what has gotten me through my struggles, through my pain, through my hopes dashed, chains bound, pain felt, emptyness and toils.

Colossians 4:5-6 Walk in wisdom toward them that are without, redeeming the time. Let your speech be always with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer each one.


We live in the backWORDZ, but let us not use our WORDZ without gentleness, without seasoning, without thought, without HOPE and without restraint. Let us, instead, speak with and walk with wisdom. Let us redeem the time! Let us speak HOPE to the hopeless! Let us begin even now, even in the backWORDZ to RIGHT the time by speaking truth in a world muddied in lies, to speak hope in a world drowning in hopelessness, to speak love to a place perpetrating hatred and pain.