February 5, 2018 - “Bridle your tongue….” James 3:4
When deacon chairman Oscar Adams spoke confidentially to our deacons, he’d conclude by saying, “Now men…that aint for publication”. Fortunately most of them honored his requests.
Remember the saying, “Sticks and stones may break my bones but words can never harm me”? Factually, the shores of history are littered with the skeletal remains of people slain by words. The sage Bias called the tongue the best and worst part of the body.
People with unbridled tongues leave their neighbors looking like a barnyard where wild animals have attacked……here an eye, there a claw and yonder a pile of feathers.
Good folks don’t destroy others by spreading news…
… “that aint for publication”.
