9/7/O7 Hum... Lets talk bout the tongue. Just what kind of words come out of my mouth on a regular basis? Did you know that what you speak or say can either give life and hope or death and despair. With this tongue we we have so much power! Yet so few of us even realize it. Our own success or failures are detirmined by how we use our tongue. Normally what we say dictates what we do, what we do dictates what happens in our life for good or for bad. Perhaps the reasion so many people feel left out, neglected, rejected, abandoned, hurt or un acknowledged. Is because we have used our tongue in damaging ways. We have uttered words that have have hurt, criticized and destroyed others. And as a consequence people shy away from us. And thus we feel so unwanted and rejected. We become more bitter and disillusioned with life and people. And it becomes a pattern or more appropriately a consequence. I want to encourage you today! To find someone to encourage and lift up with kind words. Find someone you may owe an apology to. Speak forgivness and love, speak kindness and hope to someone, And guess what not only they will reap but you will find yourself being blessed! feeling loved! encouraged, renewed, invigorated. TRY IT! Its part of the biblical mandate. "FOR HE THAT SOWETH TO THE FLESH SHALL OF THE FLESH REAP DESTRUCTION BUT HE THAT SOWETH TO THE SPIRIT, SHALL OF THE SPIRIT REAP LIFE EVERLASTING" The Tongue-The Best and Worst Xanthus, the philosopher, once told his servant that the next day he was going to have some friends for dinner and that he should get the best thing he could find in the market. The philosopher and his guests sat down the next day at the table. They had nothing but tongue-four or five courses of tongue-tongue cooked in this way, and tongue cooked in that way. The philosopher finally lost his patience and said to his servant, "Didn't I tell you to get the best thing in the market?" The servant said, "I did get the best thing in the market. Isn't the tongue the organ of sociability, the organ of eloquence, the organ of kindness, the organ of worship?" Then Xanthus the philosopher said, "Tomorrow I want you to get the worst thing in the market." And on the morrow the philosopher sat at the table, and there was nothing there but tongue-four or five courses of tongue-tongue in this shape and tongue in that shape. The philosopher again lost his patience and said, "Didn't I tell you to get the worst thing in the market?" The servant replied, "I did; for isn't the tongue the organ of blasphemy, the organ of defamation, the organ of lying?" Well done, servant; you certainly taught the philosopher a lesson, the same lesson the Apostle James wants to teach us in the third chapter. The tongue can do great good, and it can do great evil. |