Your words are a reflection of Who you are

Jesus said in Matthew 15:17-18 “Surely you know that all the food that enters the mouth goes into the stomach and then goes out of the body. But what comes out of the mouth gets its start in the heart. It's from the heart that you begin evil arguments, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, lies, and cussing. That's what pollutes the words you speak from the heart—that’s what defiles you.

Your words are a reflection of Who you are, for the most part you’d like to separate those words from how people see you and view you. That’s why people apologize for their language. Because they know that it will cause people to think differently about them. It’s why in most cases people don’t use unclean language in front of their mothers.  And when unclean language slips out they try and excuse it or justify it, “That’s not really what I’m like, I don’t know where that came from.” but it was in your soul and you let in come out. You might not want to admit it but what is in the well of your heart will eventually show up in the bucket of your mouth.

Your language says a lot about you, the use of obscenities don’t require a lot of imagination or a lot of intelligent. When you stop and think about it, for the most part obscenities deal with bodily functions or body parts and don’t really require a lot of imagination and most are uncomfortable hearing them and sometimes personally offended. “Profanity is the use of strong words by weak people”

When most people hear someone cuss they automatically make value judgments about them, immediately they put them into a unintelligent category, not necessarily uneducated there are a lot of educated and seemingly smart people who talk as if they had been to hell for a post-graduate course with the devil as their speech instructor, but they sound dense.

Regardless of the reason you might cuss, as a follower of Jesus that is a reason to not cuss. The word of God tells you in Ephesians 4:29 don’t use foul or abusive language. Let everything you say be good and helpful, so that your words will be an encouragement to those who hear them. But your language is not just a reflection of who you are. Exodus 20:7 “You must not misuse the name of the LORD your God. The LORD will not let you go unpunished if you misuse his name. It’s a Reflection of How you View God

The sad thing is that society as a whole and even Christians seem to feel like blasphemy isn’t as bad as some other words and the bad part of it is that even believers have become immune to hearing it. Why is this command not to misuse God’s name?  If you remember the Ten Commandments you might recall that the second commandment was concerned with making idols and the reason that was forbidden was because Idols reduce God. You take the Creator of the Universe and reduce Him down to an inanimate object made of stone or wood. And while making Idols certainly reduces God, misusing his name also reduces Him. You see, any time that you diminish the name of God by making it lower and less respected you reduce the glory of God. And that’s true even if it isn’t a conscious act.

When you misuse God’s name you’re not recognizing God as holding of the high ground as Creator of all things. It’s Simple, when you makes a statement like “God-damn you” your saying I’m not thinking of God as listening to me, I’m not realizing every word I say is recorded and I’m not using the Holy ones name as significant to my blessings and cures that I will receive according to what I say. The enemy does not want you to understand this Truth. Do you ever hear someone say, “Bob-damn you” or “Sue-damn you” why not? It doesn’t have the same effect when the name is someone on the same level or lower then you.

Or at times the reason isn’t malicious it’s simply ignorance. The name of God is belittled without even thinking. In fact most people who use the Lord’s name in vain through profanity do not even think about what they are doing. They are not intentionally cursing God. Their words are not directed either to God, or about God. Many of these people are not even aware of their profanity. Their profanity is simply a habit pattern for their speech. They’ve grown up with it. Perhaps their parents cursed, or their friends cursed. The use of profanity has become part of their speech. They are ignorant as to what they are doing, they are probably unaware that this issue really offends God; I mean God takes it fairly serious. The entire commandment reads Exodus 20:7 “You must not misuse the name of the LORD your God. The LORD will not let you go unpunished if you misuse his name. Did you catch that? “The Lord will not let you go unpunished if you misuse his name.”