Let the Words of My Mouth...

"Let no corrupting talk come out of your mouths, but only such as is good for building up, as fits the occasion, that it may give grace to those who hear." - Ephesians 4:29

God has been showing me how DIRTY my mouth is!! Okay, it's not that I use profanity or anything, but I speak so many words that do not build up, that do not fit the occasion, that do not give grace to those who hear...


And reading this was kinda scary.

"You brood of vipers! How can you speak good, when you are evil? For out of the abundance of your heart the mouth speaks... I tell you, on the day of judgment people will give account for every careless word they speak, for by your words you will be justified, and by your words you will be condemned." - Matthew 12:34, 36-37

Boy, every careless word!! And guess what? My corrupting talk is the matter of the heart. My heart!! Condemned by your own words?! Ahh..


But there is of course a BUT =) When Isaiah saw the LORD, He realized his unworthiness, his unclean lips. But Isaiah speaks of hope for those with unclean lips.

"Woe me! For I am lost; for I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of people of unclean lips; for my eyes have seen the King, the LORD of hosts!" Then one of the seraphim flew to me, having in his hand a burning coal that he had taken with tongs from the altar. And he touched my mouth and said: 'Behold, this has touched your lips; your guilt is taken away, and your sin atoned for.'" - Isaiah 6:5-7

Through the sacrifice on the altar, Isaiah's lips were made clean; his sin atoned for. Through the sacrifice of Jesus on the cross, my lips were made clean; my sin atoned for. Thank You Jesus!


"assuming that you have heard about him and were taught in him, as the truth is in Jesus, to put off your old self, which belongs to your former manner of life and is corrupt through deceitful desires, and to be renewed in the spirit of your minds, and to put on the new self, created after the likeness of God in true righteousness and holiness."
- Ephesians 4:21-24

"Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in your sight, O LORD, my rock and my redeemer."
- Psalm 19:14