A Tame Tongue - 6/1/21

A Tame Tongue

Hey Family, after reading James 3 this morning, it gave me some insight into the unsettlingly, deep impact that our tongues have on ourselves and the people and world around us. In this life, to achieve the call that Christ has placed upon us we must submit our tongues to God daily in order to correctly navigate the positive and negative interactions of this life. We serve a faithful God who knows what we need and hears our prayers. So, submit your tongue with hope and faith that the Spirit might tame what the flesh could not.

Today's Prayer 

"Dear Heavenly Father, Creator of Heaven and Earth and everything in them. You know just how powerful our tongues are, and that they contain the power of life and death. As merely Your children, lacking wisdom and restraint, we need You, the architect and engineer our tongues, to show us how to correctly use it. Everything that You have given us and everything that You have made to be a part of us, was made for the purpose of giving You glory and honor. So, tame our tongues today, Lord, that we might present ourselves to be blameless in your sight. All glory, honor and praise given to Jesus Christ, the Creator of all  things good and great, Amen."

Scripture

Taming the Tongue

James 3:1‭-‬12 ESV

"Not  many of you should become teachers, my brothers, for you know that we who teach will be judged with greater strictness. For we all stumble in many ways. And if anyone does not stumble in what he says, he is a perfect man, able also to bridle his whole body. If we put bits into the mouths of horses so that they obey us, we guide their whole bodies as well. Look at the ships also: though they are so large and are driven by strong winds, they are guided by a very small rudder wherever the will of the pilot directs. So also the tongue is a small member, yet it boasts of great things. How great a forest is set ablaze by such a small fire! And the tongue is a fire, a world of unrighteousness. The tongue is set among our members, staining the whole body, setting on fire the entire course of life, and set on fire by hell. For every kind of beast and bird, of reptile and sea creature, can be tamed and has been tamed by mankind, but no human being can tame the tongue. It is a restless evil, full of deadly poison. With it we bless our Lord and Father, and with it we curse people who are made in the likeness of God. From the same mouth come blessing and cursing. My brothers, these things ought not to be so. Does a spring pour forth from the same opening both fresh and salt water? Can a fig tree, my brothers, bear olives, or a grapevine produce figs? Neither can a salt pond yield fresh water."

Have Faith in your Prayers

1 John 5:13‭-‬15 ESV

"I write these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, that you may know that you have eternal life. And this is the confidence that we have toward him, that if we ask anything according to his will he hears us. And if we know that he hears us in whatever we ask, we know that we have the requests that we have asked of him."

Quote of the Day

"The  way you use and choose words defines who you are. How you use words touches you as well as those around you. Without really thinking about it, you can change another’s thoughts, beliefs and actions by using the power of words."

- Alex Uwajeh

Have a blessed day! 🙂

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