Water doesn't run uphill....and words don't return to your mouth.
In the book of James, there are lessons in controlling one's tongue. I know the difficulty of this personally. It took many years after leaving the military to learn how to speak with gentleness and monitor my words.
James 3:5 Likewise, the tongue is a small part of the body, but it makes great boasts. Consider what a great forest is set on fire by a small spark. 6 The tongue also is a fire, a world of evil among the parts of the body. It corrupts the whole body, sets the whole course of one’s life on fire, and is itself set on fire by hell.
We have the choice of speaking with the soft tone of honey and nectar, or blasting with the heat of a furnace with infuriated hate. We shouldn't be part of any speaking that is degrading, gossip or negative libel or slander.
Words have the ability to build up or destroy. I choose the former.
In the book of James, there are lessons in controlling one's tongue. I know the difficulty of this personally. It took many years after leaving the military to learn how to speak with gentleness and monitor my words.
James 3:5 Likewise, the tongue is a small part of the body, but it makes great boasts. Consider what a great forest is set on fire by a small spark. 6 The tongue also is a fire, a world of evil among the parts of the body. It corrupts the whole body, sets the whole course of one’s life on fire, and is itself set on fire by hell.
We have the choice of speaking with the soft tone of honey and nectar, or blasting with the heat of a furnace with infuriated hate. We shouldn't be part of any speaking that is degrading, gossip or negative libel or slander.
Words have the ability to build up or destroy. I choose the former.
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