Choose you this day

Do not take everything at face value. Question everything. Test it to see if it is good. James 1:2-3 says " 2 Count it all joy, my brothers, when you meet trials of various kinds, 3 for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness." We must be very intentional about what enters into our eyes and ears, because "The good person out of the good treasure of his heart produces good, and the evil person out of his evil treasure produces evil, for out of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaks." (Luke 6:45)

The Bible, specifically Proverbs and James, have a lot to say about the tongue:

• Leviticus 19:16
• Psalms 141:3
• Proverbs 10:19
• Proverbs 29:20
• Ecclesiastes 10:12, 13
• Matthew 12:36, 37
• James 1:26
• James 3:5-8

I do not expect you to look at all of the above links, but I just wanted to give examples of how powerful words and the tongue are, and how devastating the consequences can be. We need to not only watch everything everyone else says, but even more so what we say.