The POWER of WORDS!
Do you remember the saying, "Sticks and Stones may break my bones, but words will never harm me?" I am not sure how true that saying is. Words have power, and words can profoundly impact us. It is interesting to me that words often change their meaning. Look at this scripture from the King James Version: "Will the Unicorn be willing to serve thee, or abide by thy crib? Canst thou bind the unicorn with his band in the furrow?" (Job 39:9-10) Before you get all excited about UNICORNS being in the Bible, the animal we know as a Unicorn is very different than the one described in the Bible. Our Unicorn is a horse-like, mythical creature with a single horn protruding from its forehead. Even as late as 1828, the dictionary defined the term unicorn(Latin - Unicornus) as a type of rhinocerus. When the Bible speaks of the unicorn it is referring to a rhinocerous or a creature very similar. Sometime after 1828, the definition of Unicorn changed to the mythical creature we k