Little But Powerful

James 3:5  
"Even so the tongue is a little member, and 
boasteth great things. Behold, how 
great a matter a little fire kindleth!"

   We have always heard say, "if" we put a bit into the mouth of a horse, knowing that "if" 
we can control its mouth, we can control its whole body. So what James is saying, is that if 
you can control the tongue, you can control your whole body; but if the tongue is uncontrolled, your whole life is set on the wrong path.  
   A man can change the course of a ship and direct it to safety.  "A rudder is small and it is attached to the very rear end of the ship, but it has such power that by this little rudder, and by the power of one man, and when that power is gently exerted,a great fleet of ships can be moved. 'The tongue also is small, yet it can direct the whole course of a man's life"
   My Friends, The tongue is like a fire, it is wild and wide-ranging. The tongue can damage at a distance.  Man's ingenuity has tamed every wild creature in the sense of controlling and making useful; However no man by his own unaided efforts has ever been able to tame the tongue.  A chance word dropped at one end of the country or the town can finish up by bringing grief and hurt at the other.  Life and death are in the power of the tongue.  I'm not pleading for a controled life where speech is forbidden.  I'm pleading for the control of the tongue.  I'm saying that silence is sometimes better than speech.
Amen! 

Reading:  James 3:1-6
Ref: HGSB

May God Bless You

And Your Family

Minister Robert A. Lail Sr.

The Cross Life Ministry