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Guard Your Mouth, Preserve Your Life
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Here’s some practical and ancient wisdom from the book of Proverbs, chapter 13, verse three. Whoever guards his mouth preserves his life. He who opens wide his lips comes to ruin.
We could probably extend this Proverb also to whoever excessively types or enters anything into social media or on the internet. Whoever guards against that preserves his life.
The writer of Proverbs is clear that we should think before we speak, and even better than that, we should draw on the resources of wisdom available to us in the Word of God, and in our relationship with Him through the working the Holy Spirit within us.
Guarding our mouths, holding back our initial urge to offer our opinion or advice; preserves our life. It prevents us from falling into all sorts of traps. And anybody who’s opened their mouth without first thinking and experienced those consequences knows this to be true. The ultimate consequence of letting our thoughts, our mouths, our passions run free is that it will ruin us.
And the writer of the Proverbs doesn’t want that for us. He wants us to think carefully what we say, what we type, what we offer from our lives into other people’s lives, so that we are only a blessing and never a hindrance.
And this covers all walks of life, doesn’t it? This covers our interactions with people in person, online, it even extends to what we do or say in church.
You may like me, be in a church tradition that welcomes contributions from the congregation. Even in those circumstances, we should guard our mouths, shouldn’t we? What we’re bringing to our brothers and sisters in Christ, is that our opinion or is it nourishment from the living God? And if it is nourishment from the living God, then we should proceed very carefully, shouldn’t we, as anyone must who is presuming to speak on behalf of God.
Let us then guard our mouths, preserve our lives, avoid opening wide our lips and thus avoid coming to ruin.
