Compassion
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“We get it wrong nearly every time we open our mouths. If you could find someone whose speech was perfectly true, you’d have a perfect person, in perfect control of life. . . .
A word out of your mouth may seem of no account, but it can accomplish nearly anything—or destroy it!
It only takes a spark, remember, to set off a forest fire. A careless or wrongly placed word out of your mouth can do that. By our speech we can ruin the world, turn harmony to chaos, throw mud on a reputation, send the whole world up in smoke and go up in smoke with it, smoke right from the pit of hell.
“This is scary: . . . With our tongues we bless God our Father; with the same tongues we curse the very men and women he made in his image. Curses and blessings out of the same mouth! . . .
My friends, this can’t go on.” (James 3:2, 5-7, 9-10 The Message)
“A fool’s mouth is his undoing,
and his lips are a snare to his soul.” (Proverbs 18:7)
“Gracious speech is like clover honey—
good taste to the soul, quick energy for the body.” (Proverbs 16:24 The Message)
PRACTICE INCLUDES
GOD-GIVEN FRUIT