Words.
Language.
I have a phrase stuck in my mind from my read-through-the-Bible-in-one-year effort. The phrase ‘pure language’ comes from Zephaniah 3: 9 (NKJV). I cannot get it out of my head. It struck me as quite foreign, yet something to be very much desired.
Think about it. How much of the language we hear today is pure? We watch TV only to hear bleep, bleep when profanity pours from the mouths of actors and actresses. Movie viewing does not provide anything better, and usually much worse. In another time, gentlemen never uttered profanity in the presence of ladies. Now, profanity is the language many use to express themselves. Four letter word after four letter word. The name of our Lord used in hideous ways.
Even those of us who do not use profanity often give in to using our language to manipulate and hurt other people. We speak words that shame or humiliate adults and children in our spheres of influence. We gossip about or slander others. Our tongues speak lies as if there were no consequences for such behavior.
What would a world with a pure language even sound like? I’m not sure we can imagine it because we are so inundated with language that is un-pure. But Zephaniah 3:9 tells us that one day God will “purify the speech”, “give the people a language that is undistorted, unpolluted”, “purify the lips” of the people so that we will worship God as one.
Think about it. Can you imagine it? A ‘pure language’.
I think it will be quite wonderful!
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