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Just Our Thoughts
Sep. 14, 2008
The Tongue: Weapon of Destruction or Tool of Praise I
The book of Job talks a lot about the tongue and our words.
Job 6:24-30
“Teach me, and I will hold my tongue: and cause me to understand wherein I have erred. How forcible are right words! but what doth your arguing reprove? Do ye imagine to reprove words, and the speeches of one that is desperate, which are as wind? Yea, ye overwhelm the fatherless, and ye dig a pit for your friend. Now therefore be content, look upon me; for it is evident unto you if I lie. Return, I pray you, let it not be iniquity; yea, return again, my righteousness is in it. Is there iniquity in my tongue? cannot my taste discern perverse things?”
Job asked God to teach him to hold his tongue. I know it says in the Bible to ask for wisdom and understanding and other such things. Why do we not think to ask God to teach us to hold our tongues and to speak when and what He would have us speak??
Our words get us in trouble all too often. That’s what I am finding in our home and with me particularly. I am quick to respond when I should think before I speak. I am finding that I contradict myself, make myself look foolish and hurt those around me when I am quick to respond. This is essentially what Job told his “friend” Eliphaz in Job 15:1-6:
“Then answered Eliphaz the Temanite, and said, Should a wise man utter vain knowledge, and fill his belly with the east wind? Should he reason with unprofitable talk? or with speeches wherewith he can do no good? Yea, thou castest off fear, and restrainest prayer before God. For thy mouth uttereth thine iniquity, and thou choosest the tongue of the crafty. Thine own mouth condemneth thee, and not I: yea, thine own lips testify against thee.”
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