"Indeed, we all make many mistakes. For if we could control our tongues, we would be perfect and could also control ourselves in every other way. We can make a large horse go wherever we want by means of a small bit in its mouth. And a small rudder makes a huge ship turn wherever the pilot chooses to go, even though the winds are strong. In the same way, the tongue is a small thing that makes grand speeches. But a tiny spark can set a great forest on fire. And the tongue is a flame of fire. It is a whole world of wickedness, corrupting your entire body. It can set your whole life on fire, for it is set on fire by hell itself. People can tame all kinds of animals, birds, reptiles, and fish, 8 but no one can tame thetongue. It is restless and evil, full of deadly poison." James 3:2-8 NLT
Prior to living this new way of life we can all agree that as damaging as some of our actions were nothing was more devastating or had a more lasting impact than what came out of our mouths. Most of us cause much more harm to others and ourselves by what we said than what we did. Even now today in recovery and with a developing and growing personal relationship with God we still are susceptible to, as the old saying goes, "engaging our mouths before engaging our brains." We can still cause harm with not just how we say it but what we say. Proverbs 18:21 says, "The tongue can bring death or life; those who love to talk will reap the consequences." which literally means that those of us who are spiritually connected can speak death or life into the lives of the people we come in contact with. We need to ask ourselves what are we speaking? Are we speaking love, encouragement, positive affirmation and validation or are we speaking poison, judgement, negativity and rejection? Are we encouraging change and growth or are we condemning them to be nothing? When we look at how hard it was to overcome all of the negativity spoken over us and that we spoke over ourselves,the choice should be simple. It comes down to this, words have power and how we use that power can and will effect change in someones life. It's up to us what kind of change that will be.
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