Can you bridle your tongue?

Tongue is the most untamable part of our body that most of the time we lost control of it. Human nature loves to criticize, to brag, to tell lies and to blame. God knows how fallible human nature is:


James 3:2-10

2 For we all stumble in many things. If anyone does not stumble in word, he is a perfect man, able also to bridle the whole body

3 Indeed, we put bits in horses mouths that they may obey us, and we turn their whole body.

4Look also at ships; although they are so large and are driven by fierce winds, they are turned by a very small rudder wherever the pilot desires.

5Even so the tongue is a little member and boasts great things. See how great a forest a little fire kindles!

6 And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity. The tongue is so set among our members that it defiles the whole body, and sets on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire by hell.

7For every kind of beast and bird, of reptile and creature of the sea, is tamed and has been tamed by mankind.

8But no man can tame the tongue. It is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.

9With it we bless our God and Father, and with it we curse men, who have been made in the likeness of God

10Out of the same mouth proceed blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not to be so.

Yes, most of the time we stumble because of the words that comes out of our mouths. God says whatever is the content of the heart the same comes out of the mouth. If we are full of graces inside, we can speak about wisdom and good testimony from the Lord.


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