January 23-Be Careful Fingers!
But this post said “We need to tame our tongues AND we need to tame our thumbs”. As you know, words are very powerful. We have seen that in the media, in Hollywood, with gossip in our circle of friends. It’s said that words can yield more power than the sword for a reason. We as Christians MUST use those words very carefully and very wisely.
But, used correctly our words can profoundly effect people’s lives. Our words can cause a man to re-think leaving his family or a lead a lost soul to Christ or bring comfort to one who doesn’t know when to turn or teach or guide or the 1,000 other things that Jesús May call you to do with your words. But...there are many more that we often say, or more often type that he certainly has not called us to use. Those we must tame. How often does typing seem a little less “harsh” because we aren’t saying it out loud? We need to double and even triple think before we hit those send buttons.
Jesús put it like this:
“He then called the crowd together and said, “Listen, and take this to heart. It’s not what you swallow that pollutes your life, but what you vomit up.”
Matthew 15:10-11 MSG
I think if he were speaking in to days terms he’d say it’s what flies out from your smart phone.
And James was a quite a bit more harsh about it. He wanted us to understand the severity of our words and how important it was to only speak and type them only in love and kindness.
“A bit in the mouth of a horse controls the whole horse. A small rudder on a huge ship in the hands of a skilled captain sets a course in the face of the strongest winds. A word out of your mouth may seem of no account, but it can accomplish nearly anything—or destroy it! It only takes a spark, remember, to set off a forest fire. A careless or wrongly placed word out of your mouth can do that. By our speech we can ruin the world, turn harmony to chaos, throw mud on a reputation, send the whole world up in smoke and go up in smoke with it, smoke right from the pit of hell.”
James 3:5-6 MSG
You know even if what comes from our phones and computers is truth, we need to ask ourselves “is it in love” and “does it uplift?” If it doesn’t then it probably can just stay with us.
Lord God, hep us to tame not only these tongues but these thumbs too! Help us to uplift and support and edify. We exhault you O Lord, we praise you, Jesús you are higher, You are stronger and we worship You. Amen and amen.
Love you dear one,
Pam
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