Speech

Living a Christian life does not only involve how we conduct ourselves and how we act but also what comes out of our mouths. How we talk says a lot about who we are. If we speak unruly and do not tame our tongue, then we more than likely need to examine ourselves more carefully and keep a tight reign on our tongues. Have you ever heard the expression, if you can’t say something nice don’t say anything?

How we speak, doesn’t always include foul language, and cursing, perhaps, but gossip, and as the Bible says, backbiters and slanders.

Proverbs 16:28 NIV
[28] A perverse person stirs up conflict, and a gossip separates close friends.

What is in a man’s heart will come out of his mouth and define who he really is in most cases.

Luke 6:45 NIV
[45] A good man brings good things out of the good stored up in his heart, and an evil man brings evil things out of the evil stored up in his heart. For the mouth speaks what the heart is full of.

Sometimes people are in such a habit of cursing, they literally have to catch themselves in the middle of talking so they don’t say a cuss word. This is a really bad condition to be in. Cursing only shows ignorance of the individual, and once the individual with the bad habit realizes this, then they can correct it and make the change. It can be corrected, though with awareness of what is being said, and how.

Colossians 4:6 NIV
[6] Let your conversation be always full of grace, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how to answer everyone.

May God bless all of your conversations.

In him