MANY OF US indulge at every opportunity…

We gorge ourselves with good, drink, clothes, television, sports, etc.  Moderation does not come easily to us.  Yet the foundation ethic of talk is self-control.  Whoever we are, wherever we are, whatever we do, we must control our talk.

Disciplining our talk may be the ideal place to being disciplining ourselves in other areas.  I have heard of desperately obese people having their mouths wired shut to allow them to lose weight.  I suppose we could do that to improve our speech ethics too.  But such an approach to control would deal only with mechanics.  It does not deal with the lack of discipline in our character.  (William Baker)

“He who guards his lips guards his life, but he who speaks rashly will come to ruin.”  Proverbs 13:3; cf. Matthew 12:33-35; 1 Peter 3:10; Psalm 34:12-13

Mike Benson