Mat 15:11 Not that which goeth into the mouth defileth a man; but that which cometh out of the mouth, this defileth a man.
This goes along with the tongue being an evil member doesn't it? Seriously, it's what comes out of our mouths that defiles us.
What we speak. The things we say.
How can we even dare to open our mouths when so much evil is ready to spill forth? It's so easy to sin when we speak, so incredibly easy.
You hear of monks and such taking vows of silence, how amazing it must be for them to be forced by their own vow to NOT defile themselves with their mouths. If we would just follow the Word given to us and be 'SLOW to SPEAK', how much sin would be averted? If only we'd think before we speak and yet we are so quick to JUMP in and just say anything that comes to our minds. We don't take time to think, we speak because we want to, because we feel we have to voice our opinions. We feel we have a RIGHT to our opinions. I've said that so many times- I have a right to my opinion, it's just my opinion and what I'm doing is using 'my opinion' as the supposed right to say what I please and I expect no consequence from what I say because it's just my opinion and I'm entitled.
WE ARE NOT ENTITLED TO HURT OTHERS WITH OUR WORDS- opinion or not.
We are not entitled to create fuss and arguments because we just have to speak. We DO have the option of NOT SPEAKING.
So many of us have issues with our mouths, it's not limited to those with thinking problems. I know I have a BIG problem and I know the defiling stuff that comes from my mouth abhors me! I don't want to have a mouth that defiles me.
Mat 12:34 O generation of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.
I don't want to have an evil heart! I don't want to have a defiling heart! I want a CLEAN heart and a mouth that doesn't defile.
Psa 51:10 Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me.
Only by the grace of God can I have a clean heart. I need God to create a clean heart in me. Please LORD
CLEAN MY HEART!
Please!
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