PROVERBS 15

28 The heart of the righteous studieth to answer: but the mouth of the wicked poureth out evil things.

IS YOUR MOUTH SWEET OR A SEWER?

So often and this has happened to me, I blurt out an answer without even thinking about it.

Has that ever happened to you?

If only, we had taken our time to think about our answer, then we wouldn’t get into so much trouble, so often I say the first thing that comes into my head, which is the wrong thing, most of the time.

Even when giving advice, we need to study the situation, how often do we say the wrong thing, which eventually comes back to bite us.

Evil people are known by their mouth, the ability to bridle one’s tongue James 3:1-12, can only truly be done, by a person controlled by God’s spirit and living in submission to Him.

I remember in two of my jobs, I was surrounded by people who used outright profanity and foul language and they thought nothing of it, their mouths were just like a sewer, you didn’t want to go near them.

Is your tongue sweet or is it a sewer?

If it is the latter, then as a Christian, you need to repent and ask God’s holy spirit to transform that area of your life.

Maybe you are keeping the wrong company or maybe you are watching too much rubbish off the TV and internet, if you are doing either of these, you need to stop.

Proverbs 15 talks a lot about the tongue as does the book of James, studying both these passages of scriptures and see what the word of God.

Remember it is not the number of words we say, it is what we say that counts.

Amen