he average person speaks 5,000 words every day. Some of those words bring death and others life (18:21). Some words wound and others heal (12:18). Some words should be replaced by action (14:23). Some words should not have been uttered at all (11:12). Our words matter – in conversations and emails and texts and blogs and phone calls and all the rest. Words matter so much that the number one topic of Proverbs 10-31 is, you guessed it, words! The wise know how to use them and how to restrain them (10:19-21). And how does one become wise? Through the living and abiding Word of God.