God bless your day. I started mine with a hot cup of Door County Hawaiian Hazelnut Coffee.
Well at least once a year we have to go over this one. My analogy is gross but here goes.
Picture a very hot day and you have been outside for an hour or so. Someone brings to you an ice cold bottle of fresh water. Can you taste it???? Oh man it goes down so good and you want more. And you ask, " please sir or mam may I have another"? And they reply "yes just a minute". They pull a bottle from an ice filled chest and open it. You can just taste it. But they stop and reach down on to the lawn and pick up a small piece of puppy poop left on the grass and place it into your water, shake it up and hand it to you. "Whoa you say, that ruined the water and I don't want it.!!!" They reply "it's just a little". Gross analogy I know. But sometimes you just have to make a point. Let's look at what Scripture has to say.
James 3:2-10
2 For we all stumble in many ways. And if anyone does not stumble in what he says, he is a perfect man, able also to bridle his whole body. 3 If we put bits into the mouths of horses so that they obey us, we guide their whole bodies as well. 4 Look at the ships also: though they are so large and are driven by strong winds, they are guided by a very small rudder wherever the will of the pilot directs. 5 So also the tongue is a small member, yet it boasts of great things.
How great a forest is set ablaze by such a small fire! 6 And the tongue is a fire, a world of unrighteousness. The tongue is set among our members, staining the whole body, setting on fire the entire course of life, and set on fire by hell. 7 For every kind of beast and bird, of reptile and sea creature, can be tamed and has been tamed by mankind, 8 but no human being can tame the tongue. It is a restless evil, full of deadly poison. 9 With it we bless our Lord and Father, and with it we curse people (who are made in the likeness of God. 10 From the same mouth come blessing and cursing. My brothers, these things ought not to be so.
How great a forest is set ablaze by such a small fire! 6 And the tongue is a fire, a world of unrighteousness. The tongue is set among our members, staining the whole body, setting on fire the entire course of life, and set on fire by hell. 7 For every kind of beast and bird, of reptile and sea creature, can be tamed and has been tamed by mankind, 8 but no human being can tame the tongue. It is a restless evil, full of deadly poison. 9 With it we bless our Lord and Father, and with it we curse people (who are made in the likeness of God. 10 From the same mouth come blessing and cursing. My brothers, these things ought not to be so.
So as just a little puppy poop ruined the water, small things that come out of our mouths change the flavor of how we are perceived and received by others. I often think that if we could all learn to tame our tongues first, we could have victory over almost everything, like alcohol, pornography, lust, lying, weight management and a host of others. Your words today may be the puppy poop in someone's day.
Mind your tongue!
Love you all,
Marty
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