Oh Be Careful Little Mouths What You Say -PT. 4
Watch your mouth
Psalms 141:3-6 says - Set a guard over my mouth, LORD; keep close watch over the door that is my lips. Don’t let my heart turn aside to evil things so that I don’t do wicked things with evildoers, so I don’t taste their delicacies. Instead, let the righteous discipline me; let the faithful correct me! Let my head never reject that kind of fine oil, because my prayers are always against the deeds of the wicked.
We as Children of Christ have got to fully become what we claim to be: new creatures. We have to fully put away the old person so that we can live in the fullness of our salvation. And for many of us, the thing stopping us is our mouths. We have to change that. We have to stop lying, gossipping, slandering, taking advantage of, and hurting each other. How can we do these things to one another but the claim we love the Lord, when we are all made in His image? Blessings and Cursing shouldn’t come from the same mouth.
Proverbs 6:16-19 - These six things doth the Lord hate: yea, seven are an abomination unto him: A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood, An heart that deviseth wicked imaginations, feet that be swift in running into mischief, A false witness that speaketh lies, and he that soweth discord among brethren.
It amazed me at the things that God hates; moreso, the fact that He hates lying so much he had it written twice in the things he hates and are an abomination. The Bible tells us that these things cease when it begins to come from a heart of love. Why? Love is God and God is Love. So for some of us, today is the day that we finally allow our hearts to catch up to what our mouths have been proclaiming. And that in filling our hearts with so much good, that there will be no room to try to fit in our same ole negative tendencies. I pray that what we say we are, is in our hearts. And if it isn’t, in the words of my late home church pastor, I pray that the Lord can open up your stony heart and give you a heart of love.
