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To the law and to the testimony! If they do not speak according to this word, it is because they have no dawn.
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Today’s verse should be so clear to anybody who has spent time in the Word. The apostle Peter had written to the believers that whoever speaks should speak as if those words were the utterances of God Himself. {2Pt.4:11} The apostle Paul was being led by the same Holy Spirit when he wrote to the Ephesians teaching them to let no unwholesome word proceed from their mouths, but only such a word as is good for edification according to the need of the moment, that it may give grace to those who hear. {Eph.4:29}

King David, a man after God’s own heart had prayed, ‘Set a guard, O Lord, over my mouth; Keep watch over the door of my lips. {Ps.141:3} The Lord Jesus Himself said that He did not speak on His own initiative, but that the Father who sent Him had given Him commandment of what to say, and what to speak. {Jn.12:49} All who are disciples of Jesus, made righteous by the shedding of His blood, have been given a glorious ministry while here on earth now: We are to proclaim the excellencies of Him who called us out of darkness and into His marvelous light. {1Pt.2:9} God manifests through us the sweet aroma of the knowledge of the Lord in every place. {2Cor.2:14}

He has also equipped us to carry out that calling—the mouth of the righteous is a fountain of life and the tongue of the righteous is as choice silver. {Prov.10:11,20} We are to tell others that we were saved by faith and that same door is open to them. But faith comes by hearing and hearing by the word of God {Rom.10:17} so it is incumbent on us to speak according to His Word!

When Jesus was taken, brought before the high priest and the Council then abused and beaten on His way to the cross, Peter followed along but fearing for himself he denied the Lord three times just as been foretold. Interestingly and quite pertinent to our little message today, the bystanders came up and said to Peter, “Surely you too are one of them; for the way you talk gives you away.” {Mat.26:73} Can people tell that you and I are disciples of Jesus (or are not) by the way we talk?

It is not a matter for us if we speak as though we are from Alabama or New York, from London or Glasgow in the UK, from Canada or the island of Jamaica, all English, and yet all very different, instantly discernible to those who listen. For us it is about speaking the truth in love {Eph.4:15} very, very different from the world! Humility or pride will flow from our mouths, springs of life or like a broken sewage line (Yuck!) and will show for all to see what is in our hearts. Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks! {Lk.6:45}

The words of our mouth are either the Word or they are the world—and as you can see, there is an “L” of a difference! You and I are children of God and Jesus is our brother. Do we talk more about our favorite sport or our favorite movie star, or our business achievements and perhaps forget the family? The apostle Paul was moved by the Holy Spirit to tell us to let the one who boasts, boast in the Lord. {2Cor.10:17}

“I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened, so that you may know what is the hope of His calling, what are the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints,” (Ephesians 1:18)

SET A GUARD OVER MY MOUTH LORD