MORNING MANNA 2-24-22
LET YOUR WORDS BE FEW AND GODLY
The following arrested my attention one morning while reading the latter chapters of Job in his response to God, “Behold, I am vile; what shall I answer thee? I will lay mine hand upon my mouth.” (Job 40:4). Having told his friends to put their hand over their mouths (21:5), now Job knows he must do the same lest he speak out of turn with God.
Perhaps it would do each of us good to take a cue from Job.
David prayed something along the same lines, “Set a watch, O LORD, before my mouth; keep the door of my lips.” (Psalm 141:3)
Please, honestly ask yourself the following questions. Do some personal inventory as I have.
- Do I need to put my hand over my mouth?
- Do I need to share “that information” with everyone, and is it completely true?
- Do I gossip, participate in gossip, or listen to gossip?
- Do I need to give my opinion on everything?
- Do I speak of others sins but seldom speak of my own?
- Do I talk about others more than I talk to God about others?
- Do I complain and whine and criticize rather than rejoice, encourage, and praise?
- Do I talk more about myself and what’s on my mind than talking about my Savior, my Lord, my Friend, my King and what He has done? (Dale Cunningham}
Solomon put it this way, “He that hath knowledge spareth his words: and a man of understanding is of an excellent spirit. Even a fool, when he holdeth his peace, is counted wise: and he that shutteth his lips is esteemed a man of understanding.”(Proverbs 17:27-28).
“He that keepeth his mouth keepeth his life: but he that openeth wide his lips shall have destruction.”(Proverbs 13:3).
David Stone
Lakeway Baptist Church
5801 FM 1960 E
Humble, TX. 77346
