Words Of Life!
"Go, stand in the temple and speak
to the people all the words of this life."
Acts 5: 20
The Oxford English Dictionary is the
primary source for the words
of the English language. The first full edition was published in
ten
volumes in 1928. Second edition was published in twenty large
volumes in 1989 and contains entries for 171,476 English
words (and 47,156 words that are now
obsolete).
Currently, there are 355,000 entries in the Revised
Second Edition. Among modern languages,
English
is considered to have more words in use than
any
other.
We live in a world of words. Yet, how many of the words in the OED
are words of life and hope? It all depends on who speaks them and
for what purpose. What the world needs is for familiar words to be
cast in an eternal, life-giving context.
That’s what the early apostles did in Jerusalem. When an angel
of the Lord released the apostles from jail, he told
them to go
and “speak to the people all the words of this life.”
We have those very words recorded in the Bible.
Make sure you get a daily portion of life and
hope from the Scriptures.
"I hear the words of love, I gaze upon the
blood, I see the mighty sacrifice, and I
have peace with God."
Horatius Bonar
