Sunday, June 6, 2010

The tongue!

Posted by Sharon Hemitha | |

Its a dull Sunday noon... and I was thinking over the sermon at our church which surrounded the teachings of guarding our tongues... Following are some extracts of passages I referred in the bible telling us about the words we utter...

"Let no corrupting talk come out of your mouths, but only such as is good for building up, as fits the occasion, that it may give grace to those who hear." Ephesians 4:29
"Your tongue plots destruction, like a sharp razor, you worker of deceit." Psalm 52:2
"Keep your tongue from evil and your lips from speaking deceit." Psalm 34:13

Whoever I may have hurt in the past with my words... my mom or a friend or whoever it may be... I sincerely asked for forgiveness from God and prayed that I may always and always remember to guard my tongue and words I utter... But sometimes when situations in life require truth or the need to stand up and voice your thought on something that you may feel is not fair... our tongues tend to be sharp...don't they! That too..I decided today..I would try being more careful... I will try... ;-)

These images (by Reuters) extracted from one of the top stories on yahoo news today.... illustrates innocent birds toiling in a oil spill... I wish they had tongues to question us... the 'humans'... on our actions and life styles suffocating them!