Posts tagged ‘the tongue’
Guarding Our Tongues, Part 4
Paul specifically referred to our mind and our heart and not our tongue because again, what comes off the tongue is something that is already embedded in our heart or mind. By the time we actually say something aloud, it’s too late (if it’s negative or the wrong thing to say). The verbalization of something is the result of what has already been spinning around in our minds and heart.
Guarding Our Tongues
James outlines what our demeanor in the world and in our homes should be. We should be quick to hear, slow to speak, and slow to become angry. Why? James answers the question for us. He says the anger of human beings does not produce the righteousness of God, because our anger is normally born of our own sin. Are you? Am I?
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