TAMING OUR TONGUE

(JAMES 3:1-12)

 

 

 

        Today in our society, we may think that only guns, and other weapons or violent acts against another person will kill and destroy them. Words spoken from our mouth with our tongue has the same power to kill and destroy someone like a weapon. That same tongue which is able to destroy is capable also to give life.

        Words are powerful, whether spoken, written or illustrated. They can change the course of action in one's life or one's surrounding. They can help or they can hurt. They can curse or they can bless. They can encourage or they can discourage. They can give life or give death. Many people are incarcerated today because of their tongue. It may have been something they said and it was repeated or someone testified to what they had said and it resulted in their sentencing.

        There are occasions where it is necessary for us to speak or use our tongue. Even the constitution recognizes the power of our tongue and put it as one of our amendments (the 5th Amendment - Freedom of Speech).  Even the Miranda Law (rights) gives us the choice to speak or remain silent when  a person has been accused of an alledged crime. These things gives us an opportunity to control or tame our tongue.

         We've all been in situations perhaps when we've wanted to say something about a situation near us or involving us but it wasn't the right time to speak. This was the time when the choice to" tame the tongue" was probably necessary to use. There is a time to speak and a time to be silent. God has given us this ability to speak to be used properly and especially to give praises unto Him. Let us not use and abuse what He has given us to bless Him and to bless others with. It's all in controlling and taming the little red piece of meat between our teeth! If we fail to tame out tongue, it will be as the illustrated clip on how quickly one little match will spread like a wild fire and eventually destroy what was once under control and won't return to its original state.