Use your words to uplift | Two Minute Daily Devotional
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Use your words to uplift | Two Minute Daily Devotional
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In today’s episode, based on the Book of James, chapter 3, we must learn to control our tongue – to only use words that uplift rather than tear down.
We all stumble in many ways. We all fail; not one of us is perfect.
In verse 3, he then puts it in a slightly different way, saying the same thing. He says: "We put bits into the mouths of horses to make them obey us." And it's quite interesting, because that's the only way you can control a horse, really, is by pulling on that bit – that steel thing in its mouth. In doing so, we make the horse obey us and turn.
And then he uses another illustration – it's quite interesting that he uses this illustration in verse 4 – of ships. Because, of course, in those days they were large, heavy, wooden sailing ships, not like our modern ships. And he said that although the ship can be so big and driven by a wind so strong, the whole ship is turned by that tiny rudder.
We have to be so careful the direction that we choose. If we listen to the wrong voices and if we're not responding to God, we will turn – without necessarily realising it – in the wrong direction.