When you visit your doctor for a check up, he immediately does two things. First, he takes your pulse, and second, he says, “May I see your tongue?”
The same can be said of the Christian life. Christ says to you today, “May I see your tongue?” By examining your tongue, Christ can tell what is in your heart. For He has said, “...for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.” (Matthew 12:34b KJV) He can tell from the tongue if you have heart problems, if you have spiritual blockages; that is an impedance that prevents the spirit of God from moving like He wants to be in your life. Christ can detect the condition of your spiritual health. Someone has pointed out, and rightly so, that “there is a maturity the tongue reveals, a ministry the tongue fulfills and a mastery the tongue demands.”
We need to be aware of what we say and the consequences of our words. With the tongue we proclaim the Gospel, the good news, to the world, bringing hope to the hopeless, light in the midst of darkness, encouragement to the discouraged and comfort to the grieving. But, on the other hand, it is with the tongue that we gossip, backbite, slander one another and lie about and to one another and blaspheme the name of God. The Word of God says in Proverbs 18:21 (KJV), “Death and life are in the power of the tongue; and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof.”
It is necessary that we, who profess Christ as Lord, learn to control our tongue. Let Christ have His way when He asks, “May I see your tongue?”
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