Important
Words
While
watching the opening ceremony of the Olympics the commentator on television
mentioned that there is no such thing as a Chinese alphabet. In writing the
Chinese language one writes symbols. Each symbol is a word in and of itself.
This makes writing Chinese very difficult for one stroke may change totally the
word one is writing. I got to
thinking about this in relation to our English language and the importance of
certain words. By looking at the symbols below one can understand the difficulty
in learning how to write or draw each symbol and its corresponding meaning.
There
are about 750,000 words in the English language. The number of words increases
as new technology increases and phrases are created. Words such as “ipod” or
“laptop” are really words being combined to make a new word.
There
are some words we need to understand.
The
Greatest word: God, Genesis 1.1. He is our Creator. Without God nothing would
exist that now exists. Everything in the Bible from this point onward teaches us
about God’s power and plan for man’s salvation. Without God we would not
even understand the word love. It is
John 3.16 that shows us God’s love for man in His willingness to give His Son
for our salvation. Perhaps that is one reason that our world today has such a
convoluted definition of love. Rejecting God leaves man without a reference
point to define love.
The
Longest word, in a major dictionary has 45 letters. It is the word Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis
which is a medical
term referring to a specific lung disease. But the longest word in the Bible is
eternity. It means forever or without end. Revelation
22.5 simply says forever and ever. We have no way to comprehend eternity except
to say it means there will be no ending.
The
Swiftest word is time, James 4.14. We often ask where the time went or say that
time is just flying by. We measure it, but can not keep it or stop it from
passing by.
The
Nearest word is
The
Darkest word is SIN. The wages of sin is death, Romans 6.23a. Death means to be
separated from God. There is nothing worse than to be separated from God for
eternity.
The
Meanest word is HYPOCRISY, Matthew 23 Jesus used this word 8 times to condemn
the scribes and Pharisees. They were pretending to be godly on the outside but
inside they were children of Satan. We may be able to fool our fellow man and
even ourselves but God knows when we are sincere and when we are pretending.
The
deepest word is SOUL. Everyone has one and it will spend eternity some where,
Ecc. 12.7.
The
friendliest word is COME as Jesus said come unto me all who are heavy laden and
I will give you rest, Matthew 11.28-30. – Dennis Tucker