Right words offer weight to a conversation. Choosing right ones makes them easier to carry and deliver. A worn example is the word happiness. “Hap” means circumstance or occurrence, as in “the mishap happened.” Happiness simply means, “content with, or under, the circumstances.” It requires nothing else. “Happy” is my usual condition. Though I rarely laugh and seldom smile, the world appears as it should at this moment. Most folks understand it differently, and try to look happy.
Look at me. This is my happy face.
Word itself means more than we commonly allow, representing Spoken Creation, the Son of God, and everything made that was made. The Oxford English Dictionary offers this precise definition for the word, word: a single unit of language that means something. In fairness, they add, “and can be spoken or written down,” but that is redundant and/or irrelevant, like, “gas: an energetic fossil fuel,” “and that is a liquid.”
From any theological perspective, Word ultimately means, “every single unit of language spoken by God, the Father.” He Spoke means it happened. That means something. His Word is true. Present tense. He Spoke the world into being. He Spoke all Truth into Law and Prophesy, and He Spoke proof of Glory into nature and stone tablets like our hearts. He let us see right and wrong from our pedantic ignorance, so we whined. Some whimpered. We sin. Sin, sin, sin. I am proficient in all. We all had trouble with our words all the time. He finally formed His Word Again into DNA, and Recreated Adam. He created Adam, and fathered His Son. The natural Adam and the Word Made Flesh. Nothing in nature will necessarily change, yet now there is a living spirit of Adam as well, that carries us inevitably to the throne.
Knowing this, every single unit of language that means something leaves me happy. Sometimes that makes me smile or laugh, I suppose. But always, look at me. This is my happy face.
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