7.Need to be careful with Words we speak. Why?

One small incident I witnessed.

I was waiting in a Church office to meet a Brother. I happened to hear a conversation between two young men, part time workers in that church, I think. The conversation goes something like this.

PW1: We need more mailing stickers.

PW2: Last week I had bought one roll which is of 2000 unit.

PW1: Yes, but we have 2150 envelopes to be mailed.

PW2: Ok. Today being Sunday we will not get it. I will buy one roll and come.

PW1: Don’t buy a full roll. Buy only 150 units.

PW2: They may charge higher price for the lesser quantity

PW1: Tell them we will buy these regularly and buy only 150 units. But don't pay higher price.

For me who happened to hear this conversation, there were questions.

1.Full roll of 2000 mailing sticker can be stored very easily in a table drawer. If you need regularly, why can’t you buy the full roll?

2.If this is not required regularly, then did the person lie?

LORD taught me a secret through this incident. The brother would have actually meant to buy the later needs later. However the questions that came into my mind made me think.

At all times we need guard our tongue. The words we utter, how will that be perceived by others, we need to be careful with our words.

I will share one more incident that happened in my life.

I was working as a Manager in a fairly big organization, which had 2000 employees. One day, I was requested to conduct interview by a project Manager for a temporary project position. I also have a permanent position vacant in a different team, that reports me.

In one of the interviews, I found a lady to be more suitable to the permanent position, I had in my team. She also had her Husband’s friend working in that organization. So I told her that I will find a backdoor entry to a permanent position through employee referral.

Along with me there was another employee who had been on the panel for interviewing, who concurred with my decision at first instance.

However when he reported the incident to his Project Manager, the project manager was enraged as to how I can recruit from the list of her temporary candidate pool and complained to my Manager.

We had argument in our Managers cabin. This argument turned bitter, as I was keeping my stand that the candidate was more better fit for a permanent position rather than a temporary position. My Manager did not approve of my usage of vocabulary “backdoor entry” and recruited the lady for that temporary position.

This incident brewed bitterness between my Manager and I, which resulted in me resigning from the position few months later.

This backdoor vocabulary, which I used during an interview had laid the foundation for my resignation!

These 2 instances may not be big incidents, per se. However, these two incidents taught me the importance of words.

Jesus says, But I say unto you, That every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment. Matthew 12:36 (KJV)

So let us be very careful of the words we use. Every word is being accounted for!.

May the LORD lead you in all truth! Amen.

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