It's Day By Day

God invented words to be the most effective tool there is to move people in a desired direction. God’s word itself proves it. In fact, another name He gave to His beloved Son is “The Word.”

All of civilized history has gone forward on knowledge of truth, but has always stalled on lies and ignorance. Dr. David Noebel spoke truly, “If you’re going to be a leader, you have to be a reader.”

Any advocate of truth must also communicate truth. There is a difference. If one’s manner of speaking is crippled by a form of speech limited to a narrow segment of listeners, then only that narrow band will hear the truth while all words to the other hearers are wasted.

One’s speech must therefore be carefully crafted to be heard and understood by all hearers in a given audience, from the very young to the very old, from the educated to the ignorant, the rich to the poor, male to female.

Each and every audible word must be carefully chosen, diligently pronounced by the tongue, the lips, the facial expressions, honed razor sharp for the listeners’ ears.

Content must be true to the human condition and made real to each listener through examples or parables. This is what made Jesus Christ the absolute Master of all communicators.

Satan has always aimed at counteracting the truth of this with deceptive images for our eyes, sweetness for our tastes, and false words in our ears. But speakers of truth should pay this no mind; humans, you see, are endowed with a God-given bent for identifying truth, an instinctive recognition of it. Theologians call it a “rational intuition,” a permanent wrinkle in our natures.

Speakers have but to communicate the truth. God does the rest. And that particular truth cuts across all lines of religion and politics. It is who we all are. May we all learn to speak the truth. –DA