“My words are spirit and they are truth; and they shall not return to me void; but shall accomplish that whereunto they were sent.” How many of us grasp the real significance of this Biblical utterance? Or of this other: “And the word was made flesh and dwelt among us”? How many of us ever think that our own words, our uttered thoughts are living forces and are made flesh? Yet it is literally true that they are being out pictured in our body, are chiseling our physique, shaping our faces, molding our expression to their likeness.
What we think and say reappears not only in our expression, but also in our physical condition, in our health, good or bad, according to the nature of our thoughts and words. Every word we speak is an indestructible force, because it affirms a thought, a sentiment, an emotion, a motive, which never ceases to exert its power.
Jesus evidently recognized that words are real forces, for He said, “Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my word shall not pass away.” Material things might pass away, but His word was a force which could never cease to exercise its power.
All through the Bible the power of the word is emphasized. “The ‘Word was made flesh and dwelt among us,” “The Word was with God, and the Word was God,” “He sent His Word and healed them.”
There is a mysterious power in the spoken word, in the vigorous affirmation of a thought, which registers a profound impression on the subconscious mind, and the silent forces within us proceed to make the word flesh, to make the thing we affirm a reality. There is a tremendous constructive power in registering your vow, in vigorous, determined affirmation, backed by a persistent, dogged endeavor to bring about the thing we desire.
Orison Swett Marden
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