Tame Your Tongue

As you read this article, try a simple experiment: hold your tongue between your fingers. Is it still moving? No matter how hard you try to physically keep your tongue from wiggling, it is impossible (or at the least, very difficult)!

Just as the tongue is difficult to tame physically, it is spiritually. James wrote, “But no man can tame the tongue. It is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison (James 2:8).” Have you ever said something you wish you hadn’t?  Did you say something in the wrong way, and could have made it nicer or clearer? Blessing and cursing can proceed out of it (James 3:10), but only blessing should.

We should think before we speak, as there is “a time to keep silence, and a time to speak (Ecclesiastes 3:7).” When we do speak, we should speak the truth in love (Ephesians 4:15), and our speech should be “with grace, seasoned with salt, that [we] may know how [we] ought to answer each one (Colossians 4:6).”