They were not intending to swear, it just came out, they fell off the ladder, they hit their thumb with a hammer and out it came, it had a life of its own. We understand! It really does feel at times that we cannot control what comes out of our mouths.
“All kinds of animals, birds, reptiles and sea creatures are being tamed and have been tamed by mankind, but no human being can tame the tongue. It is a restless evil, full of deadly poison.” (James 3 v 7-8)
In God’s creation we see Adam being given the task of taming all the animals. But what he couldn’t do after sin entered was tame his own tongue for he cursed his wife. “The woman you put here with me – she gave me some fruit from the tree and I ate it.”
Our tongue is uncontrollable. It won’t stay still for us to hold on to it. But read what James says, “no human being can tame the tongue”. Though James doesn’t say it we know God can do what man cannot. The obvious thought after James says that no human being can is that God can.
Do you want to be like Jesus? They said of him, “no one ever spoke like this man,” John 7:46.
Can you imagine if in our work, neighbourhood, family and leisure places it was said of us, ‘no one speaks like you around here’?
People would know there was something or someone who had a hold of our mouth and we would tell them that Jesus has got a hold of us. He is the Lord. He has tamed what no one could tame.
Missions Paul 