DON’T TRIP OVER YOUR OWN TONGUE!

It is bad to think ill, but it is much worse to speak it, for that implies consent to the evil thought and a willingness to infect others with it. -Henry

Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips from speaking guile. Psalm 34:14

Boy sometimes I’m just like Andy Griffith, I want to pull the words I just spoke right back into my mouth. Now, I know you’re always perfect with your words and never make a comment out of place but I do and many times, I pay for it for a long time! (Now be honest, you do to…)

Friend, it would do us good to listen twice as much as we speak today. I mean, the Lord did give us two ears and one mouth! If we did, maybe, just maybe we wouldn’t trip over our own tongue as much as we do!

DECEPTION IS JUST AN AVOIDED LIE.

Oh what an evil web we weave when we practice to deceive.

Little children, let no man deceive you: he that doeth righteousness is righteous, even as he is righteous. 1 John 3:7

When I was growing up I held out on all of the information I was suppose to tell my parents. I did this so I wouldn’t have to tell a lie. You probably did it as well.

Sometimes it went like this… Mom, I’m going to the mall. Ok- I went to the mall... and then off to a friend’s house, down to the creek, etc. If I told Mom to a friend’s house or the creek, I would get the third degree and I would have to tell a lie.

If you are saved, why not just tell the truth? God knows what’s going on anyway! Why are you avoiding man’s judgment but willing to take God’s? Matthew 10:28, And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.