Scorned Lips

There was a time when my sister and I use to fight like cats and dogs. It could sometimes get brutal. I’m talking flying objects with trajectory of precision that would split an apple from twenty feet or so. I’m talking serious pain on impact or a trip maybe to the hospital. Despite all the bruises, flesh wounds and emergency room visits, there was something else that caused more pain than any of these. The words we used to describe how much we hated one another. I remember the day that she decided to leave the house due to the conflicts and distress that flooded our home. My heart broke that day. I cried like a baby because my sister would no longer be around. Not because I had no one to pick on but because of all the guilt from the terrible things I said to her over the years. The love I felt deep inside came out that day. I realized that I had regretted all those terrible things I said about her. The tongue is a powerful weapon; It can slice through the toughest of people. And even the people that we hang around can influence our tongue. They can influence how we speak to others and cause us to sin. Sometimes before it is too late we realize this and God will convict us. I think this is what happened the day that my sister decided to leave at the age of seventeen while I was a mere thirteen year old skinny knows it all boy. We can find redemption in our Lord and transformation of our heart. Through the transformation of our heart our lips are scorned and the hatred that we once delivered from our lips will no longer leave our lips again.


Isaiah 6:1-7