Day 138 Bite Your Tongue | Proverbs 13:3-4

Bite Your Tongue

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Those who control their tongue will have a long life;
opening your mouth can ruin everything.

Lazy people want much but get little,
but those who work hard will prosper.

Verse 3

Our words can place us in danger. Or our words can protect us.

Our words can make evil plans. Or our words can encourage and help other people.

We have a choice.

Verse 4

Everybody desires good things. A person should work and earn money. Then he can buy the things that he desires.

In Chapter 3 of the Book of James we read:

5So the tongue is also a little member, and boasts

great things. See how a small fire can spread to a large

forest! 6And the tongue is a fire. The world of iniquity

among our members is the tongue, which defiles the

whole body, and sets on fire the course of nature, and is

set on fire by Gehenna. 7For every kind of animal, bird,

creeping thing, and sea creature, is tamed, and has been

tamed by mankind. 8But nobody can tame the tongue. It

is a restless evil, full of deadly poison. 9With it we bless

our God and Father, and with it we curse men, who are

made in the image of God. 10Out of the same mouth

comes blessing and cursing. My brothers, these things

ought not to be so.

In Psalm 141 is this wise prayer that I often (but not

always often enough) pray: 3Set a watch, Yahweh, before my

mouth. Keep the door of my lips.

Verse 4 reminds us that we were not created to sit

around and have everything handed to us on a silver platter. You

don’t fulfill your dreams by simply day dreaming.

Let me ask you: What do you need to do to control your

tongue?

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