Words: Good, Helpful & Encouraging

Scripture
Let everything you say be good and helpful, so that your words will be an encouragement to those who hear them. Eph 4:29

Observation
Good, helpful and encouraging. I can think of someone who consistently says the opposite of this text. Most everything they say is not good, helpful or encouraging. And it makes me want to avoid them.It makes them come across as judgemental, mean, uncaring, and self righteous. I'm thinking Paul was writing to the Ephesians that they might be winsome.

Application
I need to look at my life and filter my words through this text. Good, Helpful, Encouraging. I wonder how often I will talk?

Prayer
Lord Jesus, I don't look at other's failures with this text, as in, "boy, could they ever use this"; I look at myself. I know there are many times I speak what is not good, helpful or encouraging. Please touch my thoughts, and my heart, so that I might speak what is good, helpful and encouraging. To my family, to our staff, to our church, to the world.