[Manna - October 1]
I will take heed to my ways, that I sin not with my tongue: I will keep my mouth with a bridle while the wicked is before me. Psalm 39:1
PROBABLY every person of experience will fully
agree with the statement that the tongue is potent in
its influence beyond any other member of the body,
for either good or evil.
Experience teaches also that
with the vast majority it is easier to control any other
organ than the tongue.
So skillful a servant is it that
every ambition and passion and inclination of the
fallen nature seeks to use it as a servant or channel
for evil.
It requires, therefore, on the part of the
Christian, increased vigilance, wisdom and care so as
to govern this member of his body and bring it into
subjection to the new mind in Christ, that it shall be,
not a hindrance to himself or to others, but, on the
contrary, a help in the narrow way. Z.'97-156 R2156:3