Bite Your Tongue
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Those who control their tongue will have a long life;
opening your mouth can ruin everything.
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Lazy people want much but get little,
but those who work hard will prosper.
Verse 3
Our words can place us in danger. Or our words can protect us.
Our words can make evil plans. Or our words can encourage and help other people.
We have a choice.
Verse 4
Everybody desires good things. A person should work and earn money. Then he can buy the things that he desires.
In Chapter 3 of the Book of James we read:
5So the tongue is also a little member, and boasts
great things. See how a small fire can spread to a large
forest! 6And the tongue is a fire. The world of iniquity
among our members is the tongue, which defiles the
whole body, and sets on fire the course of nature, and is
set on fire by Gehenna. 7For every kind of animal, bird,
creeping thing, and sea creature, is tamed, and has been
tamed by mankind. 8But nobody can tame the tongue. It
is a restless evil, full of deadly poison. 9With it we bless
our God and Father, and with it we curse men, who are
made in the image of God. 10Out of the same mouth
comes blessing and cursing. My brothers, these things
ought not to be so.
In Psalm 141 is this wise prayer that I often (but not
always often enough) pray: 3Set a watch, Yahweh, before my
mouth. Keep the door of my lips.
Verse 4 reminds us that we were not created to sit
around and have everything handed to us on a silver platter. You
don’t fulfill your dreams by simply day dreaming.
Let me ask you: What do you need to do to control your
tongue?
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