April 05, 2011
Taming the Tongue
I came across some interesting trivia that our tongue is the only muscle in our body that is attached at only one end. James says, “…no man can tame the tongue. It is a restless evil, full of deadly poison.” (James 3:8 NIV) I can just picture a kid at the playground on a winter day being tricked into licking a frozen flagpole. That’s what you call an attached and a tamed tongue.
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Gail;
-----The heart and mind comprise the most private place we have. We do and store things there as free of accountability to our fellow man as we choose. For some proportions of it, we all choose total freedom, maybe to keep our lips from blowing our righteousness through a trumpet, maybe to sequester our shamefulness from public view. Thus, it becomes the storehouse of our treasures, however good or bad they might be.
-----Our actions attach these treasures to their effects upon the physical world. If I break my neighbor’s window the physical world has been effected in a way my mind can not escape, whether or not my neighbor knows I broke it. That effect itself becomes an accountability, an accountability to make it good if I have a conscience, or an accountability to extend my evil by lying if I do not have a conscience. Most of us do not want our neighbor’s harmed. So, for our neighbor’s benefit of enjoying undamaged property we will be careful with our actions.
-----But words are less directly effectual upon the visible world. We are tricked into thinking they do not mean anything since they don’t seem to effect anything we can see. Really though, this physical world is due to melt away in fervent heat while each heart containing all its treasure will remain standing for measurement before God. And these are those storehouses that our words effect directly. God is perceptive enough to note whose spoken words are attached to which effects made upon any particular heart. Talk about accountability! Today we know it only by pondering it. But then we will inescapably know it.
Love you all,
Steve Corey
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