12.4.23 - Romans 10:10
Words create worlds. How can you use your voice to create right relationships with others today?
Faith in the heart leads to being put right with God, confession on the lips to our deliverance.
The words we say have power.
Our tradition’s creation story has God uttering words to bring forth life. Proverbs says, “the power of life and death is in the tongue.” And here, Paul shares that deliverance–or salvation, liberation–is born from the confession of our lips.
I think for our modern purposes, we can extend this to our written and visual speech, all the ways in which we communicate our thoughts and feelings with our communities.
Our communication has the power to bring liberation.
With TikToks and reels and posts and letters to congress and protest signs and sermons and conversations, people around the globe are bearing witness to freedom.
If faith makes us right with God, our communication has the ability to make us right with our neighbor.
How can you use your voice to create right relationships with others today?
What liberation are you speaking into existence on your lips?
--Candace Woods