Thursday: The Deadliest Weapon

James 3:7-12 "For every kind of beast and bird, of reptile and sea creature, can be tamed and has been tamed by mankind, but no human being can tame the tongue. It is a restless evil, full of deadly poison. With it we bless our Lord and Father, and with it we curse people who are made in the likeness of God. From the same mouth come blessing and cursing. My brothers, these things ought not to be so. Does a spring pour forth from the same opening both fresh and salt water? Can a fig tree, my brothers, bear olives, or a grapevine produce figs? Neither can a salt pond yield fresh water."

Who are we to curse man yet call ourselves a Christian? God has created each person in his own image and he loves them very much. If we are putting others down or thinking of them as lesser then ourselves then we are insulting God. When we curse his creation we curse him. Who are we to even complain about what  circumstances we are currently in for God is in control of everything. We are to praise God in the good times and in the bad times. See as followers of Christ we are to praise God for who he is and what he has done. Worship should be a daily practice for us. Yet how can this be if we are cursing man and grumbling about our circumstances. James illustrates this by using a spring. A spring can't produce both salt and fresh water. The two are completely opposite. See if you have a glass of fresh water and you add even the slightest amount of salt water then the entire glass becomes salt water. See fresh water is only fresh when it is pure, without any salt. The same goes for our praises. We may worship God Sunday morning but if our actions are different during the week then our praise is done in vein which isn't in the slightest bit glorifying to God because then we are just going through the motions which can simply be self glorifying. Causing you to feel good or appear to be righteous.

Watch what you do with your tongue and how you handle it! You can either glorify God or dishonor him but you cannot do both. What are you going to do?

Tame you Tongue