Words...

Words...
Everyday we have decisions to make. We are faced with potential challenges. How we use our tongue will determine the outcome when confronted with troubles. What direction our life will take with the outcome of what we say. We can either talk our selves into trouble or choose to speak God’s blessings. There are times we can have bad attitudes and express words or doubt,bitterness or even hate. That is when we miss out on God’s blessings. BUT we can choose to express through words of faith, having good attitudes and believe to be blessed. When we speak negative things we put ourselves in dangerous positions. Proverbs 16:28 “A perverse man stirs up dissension and a gossip separates close friends.”You can loose friends just like that, people might not like you. You might not be the life of the party. In return they might just spread rumors about you. You might not have that gf or bf anymore. or all your mates laughing at your jokes. instead they are laughing at you and not with you. Believe it or not the tongue is the most powerful thing we have. Who likes someone that they cannot trust? In James Chapter 3 it illustrates how powerful the tongue actually is.

James 3:1-12
Three illustrations on how powerful the tongue actually is
1. The tongue may be compared to "bits" placed in the mouths of horses (v. 3)—Obviously, this small instrument is used by the rider to control the actions of the large animal. In the same way, the tongue—though it is a very small organ in the human body—often manifests full mastery over its owner. The tongue, then, exerts control over the "entire body as well."

2. James compared the tongue to the "rudder" of a great ship (v.4). Here, the point is even more powerfully made as one considers the relative size of the rudder in comparison to a sea-going vessel. The rudder takes the ship "wherever the inclination of the pilot desires."

3. Finally, the tongue is compared to a "small flame" or spark that has the power to incinerate an entire "forest" (v. 5). In verse 6, James made this illustration even more pronounced by observing that the tongue is not only "a fire," but also "the world of iniquity." It is both the entry point of evil as well as the bodily member that gives expression to all types of unrighteousness and ungodliness. The tongue not only contains all the "representations of evil in the world," it is able to initiate every conceivable evil action . In this way, according to James, the tongue "defiles the entire body, and sets on fire the course of our life." Note that James also stressed that the fire wielded by the tongue is fueled by yet another fire—the fire of "hell" itself!

When it is all said and done..How will we use our tongue? are we going to speak life? or are we going to tear down our friendships...The choice is yours...We must learn how to manage our tongue.