Think before you speak!

I'm sure every era, every century, every generation, pple will have their own form of lingos. This is how they identify with one another. I enjoy every part of the lingo we have becoz many have been formed out of pure creativity. There are also those that were formed becoz of certain incident and it helps us to identify with one another. To outsiders, it may mean nothing and maybe hilarious but it makes a lot of sense to us. But yet, every time I have to be careful with my usage of lingos. Many a times there are a lot of dangers and traps which we do not see. Certain lingos we do not see the significance or we do not know the origin of it. It may have negative influence to ourself without knowing it.

I see that in this generation, pple have been liberalising certain words that are debatable in nature. Like the word gay and lesbian and all the root words. (Hear me clearly, I dun hate gays or lesbians but I dun condone their behaviours.) I see that there are people using the word freely in the sense that these words can becomes adjectives for things. Like some people dun like some things or feel awkward abt something, they will say "this thing is so gay" I have someone telling me this "this color is so gay" just simply becoz he doesn't like it. I was shocked. So mean a colour can be gay? What's next? The colour is HIV contagious huh? Or people seeing guys or girls behaving very intimidating with their good, same gender frens, they will jokingly comment that that is so gay or les. My goodness! Pple do not know what they are saying. As Christians, we believe that God has made Man to be Man and Woman to be Woman. Gayism or lesbianism are a distortation from the evil one. If you understand this, we will be extremely careful not to use these words freely becoz everytime we say or use such words, we are basically saying to the evil one, "Well done! I accept what you are doing in all these people's life!" You may argue that all these are said out of fun with no malicious intention but I tell you, would you go around saying the F word to everyone and say that it's out of fun and no malicious intention. That's something we do want to think abt!

There are also certain words that we commonly used in our daily lives. It seems harmless. We nvr knew its origin but since everyone is using it and no one complains abt it, it shd be alright. Are you sure? I dun think i want to be too comfortable following the majority. Words like "damn" and "bloody". It is commonly used to replace the word 'very' or 'to a great extent'. For example, "You are very pretty" which translates to "You are damn or bloody pretty." Maybe it could be out of exaggeration or sarcasim. The word 'damn' comes from the word "condemn" and if you understand, blood to us Christians reminds us of Jesus' blood. The earlier examples are used in a positive context so it's still not too bad. But many a times, such words are used in bad comments. For example, "You are damn or bloody stupid". The word condemn is a very harsh word and it means you are hopeless, good for nothing. The word damn in itself is such a lousy and negative word. Whether using it for a good or bad comment, it 'corrupts' the message. Let your Very be Very. Also the word bloody which reminds us of Christ and how precious His blood shed for us, we better think twice or even a few more times before we want to use the word to spice up our converstation.

Also there are certain rude words which have been commonlised by the society. So it doesn't sound too 'bad' when said as it is commonly used. For example, "shit lah", "kick your asshole", "WTH", etc...... These are not so nice things to say. It hurts others and it just simply reflect your own nature.

"But the things that come out of the mouth come from the heart, and these make a man 'unclean"

Matthew 15:18

There's this sister of mine and have a habit of saying the word "shit''. So was having a chat with her on this issue and reminded her of the verse and that it requires a conscious effort to remind herself not to say the word. So after a few days, there was this moment that she wanted to spurt out that word but immediately, she withhold her tongues. Though we could tell that she was on the verge of saying that word, I must say I'm impressed with her effort. That's how we need to do to change our bad habits. It's not overnight but it's not impossible. We need to feed ourselves with God's word and understand His word and den we will be convicted by the Spirit that we need to change and that with the guidance and strength from God, we make an effort to change. Let's us continue to encourage one another in doing what is right for God!