At amusement parks, the
bumper-car ride is always popular. People enjoy driving recklessly for a few
minutes, bumping deliberately but harmlessly
into other people's cars.
into other people's cars.
Some people have a
bumper-car mentality in their relationships with others. Using blunt words,
they deliberately bump into others' feelings, which is anything but harmless.
Solomon wrote,
Proverbs 10:19
"He
who restrains his lips is wise"
But James said,
James 3:8
"No
man can tame the tongue. It is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison"
He said that with the tongue we bless our God who created us, but
we also curse those whom He has created. Unless we think that Christians do
the blessing and non-Christians do the cursing, we need to remember that James
was writing to Christians.
To tame our tongues, we
need God's help. In Romans 6:13, Paul said that we need to make a choice to
present the parts of our body "as instruments of righteousness to
God," not "as instruments of unrighteousness to sin."
Today and every day,
choose to present your body including your unruly tongue as a living sacrifice
to God (Romans 12:2) to be used by Him as an instrument of blessing.
To bridle your tongue,
give God the reins of your heart.
-Extracted from Youth4Him.com
No comments:
Post a Comment