Guard Over

Set a guard over my mouth, O Lord; keep watch over the door of my lips. ~ Psalm 141:3

Do you know your words can speak life, or death?  Your tongue can actually kill, steal, and destroy.  Yes, you read that right, just like our enemy we can do the same thing with our words.  We can destroy our friend's dreams, kill our child's spirit and steal the peace in our own homes that we all so desperately pray for.  Jesus warns us that what is in our hearts comes out and sometimes it isn't very tasteful.  The bible repeatedly warns us that we can hastily hurt someone and wound spirits with our words, or we can lift each other up.  The tongue is one of the strongest muscles in the human body and according to Proverbs 18:21, "the tongue has the power of life and death".  In this broken world of harsh disagreement and continued attack on each other, we need to keep our mouths sealed unless we are speaking life.  Our mouths and lips should be gated, locked and sealed if we don't have anything kind, encouraging, or inspiring to say.  People don't need to hear us talk just to hear us blab.  Let us remember that what we allow to be deposited into our hearts and minds usually comes out one day we will all have to give an account to God Almighty of what we did and what we said.  Let us be uplifting; there is already enough that tears us down. ~ Amen