It’s impossible to overestimate the power of words. They can injure or heal, poison or nourish, deceive or enlighten, cost lives or save them. It is no exaggeration to say that the course of history can be changed with a single sentence.
In 1987, President Ronald Regan met with Russian Premier Gorbachev in Berlin. Everybody knows that certain protocols come into play when heads of state get together. Above all, you’re supposed to act like friends, smile for the cameras, and not say anything in public that might embarrass your counterpart. But Ronald Reagan threw such conventional thinking right out the window and dared speak six words that historians agree altered the world forever: “Mr. Gorbachev, tear down the wall.”
When I think about that incident, I’m reminded that James compared the tongue to a small bit that can turn a powerful horse, or a tiny rudder that can alter the direction of an enormous ship (James 3:3-4).
-- Mark Atteberry in “Free Refill: Coming Back for More of Jesus”
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