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The Right Thing
"Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment."
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If you haven't bitten your tongue lately, then perhaps you're being too lose with it. If you spend a lot of time around people and like to talk, your "word alert" should be set to high sensitivity.
"It only takes a spark, remember, to set off a forest fire. A careless or wrongly placed word out of your mouth can do that. By our speech we can ruin the world, turn harmony to chaos, throw mud on a reputation, send the whole world up in smoke and go up in smoke with it, smoke right from the pit of hell." --James 3:5-6 (The Message)
Of course, we all make mistakes and say things we wish we hadn't said, but we don't have to keep making the same dumb mistakes over and over. By God's grace our tongues can be "tamed."
A few years ago I shared something with a friend that I later deeply regretted. I saw the effect it had on several people as it took on its own life and grew beyond its original form. "Like feathers in the wind, our words all fly away, and when they are gone, sometimes we have to pay, I should have known better."
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