How well do you speak? Do you speak foolishness? Do you speak wisdom? Do you speak about things on which you are knowledgeable? Do you speak things you know very little about? Have you tamed your tongue? Have you allowed God to train you in your speech?
We like to speak, at times, about things on which we know very little. Sometimes, we speak in ignorance without knowing it. Other times, we speak about things we know and from personal experience. We can impart wisdom to others when we pair knowledge and experience.
Yet, we speak best when we lean on God to guide our tongue. Without God guiding us, we can speak foolishness, blathering about nothing and saying nothing of value though we may speak many words. To tame our tongue, we need God to help us. It is from him that true wisdom comes, wise words that can save a soul.
Not only can we speak wisdom when relying on God to guide us, but we can lift the heavy hearted, we can comfort the broken hearted, we can encourage the downtrodden. It is with God’s guidance that we will speak to the words that he desires us to speak. It is with God’s guidance that we will restrain ourselves. It is with his guidance that we will gain the wisdom to know when to speak and when to be quiet.
I pray we all seek to tame our tongues. I pray we ask God to grant us wisdom to know when to speak and when to be quiet. I pray each one of us will lean on God to sustain the weary with the words we speak. Tame your tongue. Ask God for wisdom. Lift the heavy hearted. Comfort the broken hearted. Encourage the downtrodden.
Isaiah 50:4a
The Lord God has given me
a trained tongue,
that I may know how to sustain
the weary with a word.
Marty Pressey 