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When there are many words, transgression is unavoidable but he who restrains his lips is wise.
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It is really pretty amazing when you see how much instruction is given through the scriptures about what comes out of our mouths, what we say—or what we may fail to say for that matter. James had written that our tongues are like the bridles in the horses’ mouths or like the small rudders on large ships that direct their paths. {Jas.3:3-4}

I know for a fact that it makes a great deal of sense to hear and to heed those truths when we consider that Jesus said: “The good man out of the good treasure of his heart brings forth what is good, and the evil person out of his evil treasure brings forth that which is evil, for out of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaks.” {Lk. 6:45}

As I post this little daily blog today I have been blessed to have been preaching and teaching God’s word since 1976, for almost fifty years now, so I have spoken many, many words. Solomon’s instruction in our verse for today has always been a caution to me to make sure that it is all about the Holy Spirit within me that is giving me the words to speak.

And so, like David, a man after God’s own heart, {Acts 13:22} I must continually pray: “Set a guard, O Lord, over my mouth; Keep watch over the door of my lips.” {Ps.141:3} So I want to encourage you today, my brothers and sisters in the Lord, to boldly speak the truth in love {Eph.4:15} as the Lord gives you utterance. Ultimately, His message always has a foundation in love.

You and I who have been saved by His love and are filled with His love need to share His love! Solomon wrote that an open rebuke is better than love that is concealed, unspoken. {Pr.27:5} Tell somebody today that Jesus loves them. As Jesus said, His words are spirit and are life. {Jn. 6:63}

The Lord doesn’t need our oratory brilliance. As a matter of fact, Paul wrote that God chooses the foolish to shame the wise and the weak to shame the things that are strong! {1Cor.1:27} Thankfully, we can be perfectly safe speaking if we remember that we have been told to proclaim the excellencies of Jesus who has called us out of darkness and into His marvelous light. {1Pt.2:9} I for one know that I am qualified to do that.

“Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, that we might know the things freely given to us by God, which things we also speak, not in words taught by human wisdom, but in those taught by the Spirit, combining spiritual thoughts with spiritual words.”  (1 Corinthians 2:12-13)

THE MOUTH OF THE RIGHTEOUS IS A FOUNTAIN OF LIFE