Careful Words Make For A Careful Life; Careless Talk May Ruin Everything
In Everything you say and do, do It Out Of Love
PROVERBS 13:3-6
“He who guards his mouth preserves his life, But he who opens wide his lips shall have destruction. The soul of a lazy man desires, and has nothing; But the soul of the diligent shall be made rich. A righteous man hates lying, But a wicked man is loathsome and comes to shame. Righteousness guards him whose way is blameless, But wickedness overthrows the sinner.
”Proverbs 13:3-6 NKJV
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You cannot master self-control if you cant control your tongue. Your words can do so much damage, they can cut and destroy peoples lives.
James recognised this truth when he told us, “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. For every kind of beast and bird, of reptile and creature of the sea, is tamed and has been tamed by mankind. But no man can tame the tongue. It is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison. With it we bless our God and Father, and with it we curse men, who have been made in the similitude of God. Out of the same mouth proceed blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not to be so.”
James 3:6-10 NKJV
If you want self-control, start with your tongue. But don’t expect to be able to control it in your own power. My beloved, you need God’s help and leadership to tame your tongue.
Stop and think before you react or speak, for what you say will have a lasting effect, good or evil, for, “A man’s stomach shall be satisfied from the fruit of his mouth; From the produce of his lips he shall be filled. Death and life are in the power of the tongue, And those who love it will eat its fruit.”
Proverbs 18:20-21 NKJV
Therefore, choose your words carefully.
“So then, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath; for the wrath of man does not produce the righteousness of God.”
James 1:19-20 NKJV
My beloved, our words shall either bless or curse.
Discipline is important, but it must be brought out of love.
Furthermore, every word that comes from our mouth must edify, not humiliate; it must bring truth, not lies, and bring conviction, not condemnation and shame.
Therefore, there is no place for hate speech or gossip within the body of Christ.
One wrong word, even though one can apologise, cannot be un-said and can ruin everything.
Don't be a lazy Christian, work hard in everything you do as if working for the Lord (COLOSSIANS 3:23-24). The truth is, those who work hard will prosper.
Do not put off until tomorrow that what you can do today, and everything we do must be in truth.
We believers must always be truthful, whatever situation; lies bring you into agreement with the devil-he is the father of all lies.
Whenever you lie, even when it seems justified, or when calling it harmless or a little white lie," or saying, "I lied to protect them," or "to keep the peace," you are joining with the devil; indeed you open doors that allow the devil’s into your life.
There is no such thing as a little white lie. Every lie comes from the pits of hell and will never achieve anything good.
My brethren, ““No one can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or else he will be loyal to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon.”
Matthew 6:24 NKJV
Jesus leads in all truth, but Satan is liar. The two cannot be in union with each other.
Living blamelessly, safeguards your life.
Every choice for good sets into motion other opportunities for good. Evil choices follow the same pattern, but in the opposite direction.
Each decision you make to obey God's Word will bring a greater sense of order to your life, while each decision to disobey will bring confusion and destruction.
The right choices you make reflect your integrity.
Obedience brings the greatest safeguard and security, but we must all be mindful that every action both good and evil will bring consequences.
My beloved, God is love and is the foundation of His way of life.
It is a weapon of mass destruction against the enemy and all the Laws and the prophets hang on the commands to love (MATHEW 22:37-40).
Therefore, whatever you say or do, say it and do it out of love, giving consideration to Paul’s words.
“Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I have become sounding brass or a clanging cymbal. And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, but have not love, it profits me nothing. Love suffers long and is kind; love does not envy; love does not parade itself, is not puffed up; does not behave rudely, does not seek its own, is not provoked, thinks no evil; does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth; bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never fails. But whether there are prophecies, they will fail; whether there are tongues, they will cease; whether there is knowledge, it will vanish away. For we know in part and we prophesy in part. But when that which is perfect has come, then that which is in part will be done away. When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child; but when I became a man, I put away childish things. For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I shall know just as I also am known. And now abide faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these is love.”
I Corinthians 13:1-13 NKJV
All glory to God forever and ever! Amen.
