Oh, Be Careful Little Tongue!

I've been thinking about the tongue and how important our words are... So I thought I would write a blog about it.

James 3

 ¹My brethren, be not many masters, knowing that we shall receive the greater condemnation.

 ²For in many things we offend all. If any man offend not in word, the same is a perfect man, and able also to bridle the whole body.

 ³Behold, we put bits in the horses' mouths, that they may obey us; and we turn about their whole body.

 ⁴Behold also the ships, which though they be so great, and are driven of fierce winds, yet are they turned about with a very small helm, whithersoever the governor listeth.

 ⁵Even so the tongue is a little member, and boasteth great things. Behold, how great a matter a little fire kindleth!

 ⁶And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity: so is the tongue among our members, that it defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire of hell.

 ⁷For every kind of beasts, and of birds, and of serpents, and of things in the sea, is tamed, and hath been tamed of mankind:

 ⁸But the tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.

 ⁹Therewith bless we God, even the Father; and therewith curse we men, which are made after the similitude of God.

 ¹⁰Out of the same mouth proceedeth blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not so to be.

 ¹¹Doth a fountain send forth at the same place sweet water and bitter?

 ¹²Can the fig tree, my brethren, bear olive berries? either a vine, figs? so can no fountain both yield salt water and fresh.

 ¹³Who is a wise man and endued with knowledge among you? let him shew out of a good conversation his works with meekness of wisdom.

 ¹⁴But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth.

 ¹⁵This wisdom descendeth not from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish.

 ¹⁶For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work.

 ¹⁷But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.

 ¹⁸And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace of them that make peace.

Words are very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, important! 

"Oh be careful little tongue what you say."

Can you tell that I am super crazy busy and don't have time to write a blog? :) 

I rarely get stressed out, but last night, I panicked. 

My brain started going through all of the stuff I had to do and deadlines started popping up that I didn't even have to make. 

But... God reminded me that "He's got the whole world in His hands!"

I realized that worry is another form of fear.

Fear is another form of not-trusting God.

Not-trusting God is bad.

So... I prayed, and prayed, and prayed!

Then God put me to sleep. 

Or maybe it was the devil because he saw that I was praying.... 

Anyhow, just because I'm not stressed out doesn't mean that I have time to write a blog.... so, Toodles!

(Now you know that I could totally use your prayers!)