Life is full of mistakes. Day after day we make mistakes, and they come in many sizes; some mistakes are huge and to big for us to correct and some are the size we can fix. Most of us cannot go one day without doing something or saying something that leads us into trouble. Sometimes we find ourselves repeating mistakes over and over again; we call those sin. We hate mistakes so much that some have pride themselves to becoming perfectionists. Now, a perfectionist is one who demands perfection from himself or from others, and mistakes drive us to that state. But, even if one is a perfectionist that does not exclude him from making mistakes. Two of the most common ways we make mistakes are obvious; we do things we should not, and we say things. But, the root to every mistake done or said comes from the heart and it is expressed through the mouth.
Ecclesiastes 5:6-7
6 Do not let your mouth lead you into sin. And do not protest to the temple messenger, “My vow was a mistake.” Why should God be angry at what you say and destroy the work of your hands? 7 Much dreaming and many words are meaningless. Therefore fear God.
What leads us to doing things we should not is the words that come out of our mouths. The problem is that our mouths are hard to tame. Have you ever found yourself just bursting to say something; you wish you could blur out that which your thinking; give em a piece of your mind. A good suggestion I used to give to people who were angry and wanted to vent was write it on a journal or something, now the problem is that people will write it in an email or text and send it. The fact is that someone is always listening to our words whether it is another person or an angel someone is ready to write down everything you say. In fact, Jesus said that all the words that are not of good that comes out of our mouths will be judged (Mt. 12:36). The tongue is compared to a horse without brakes whose rider is the heart. Jesus said that out of the abundance of heart the mouth speaks, (Lk6:45), so, every person’s heart depending on what he puts in it the mouth will speak it; if we put in evil or good things the mouth will utter it sooner or later.
There are words and phrases that are straight up wrong and in appropriate, but there those that are not bad they just have the flexibility to mean differently. James says that we offend in many words and, yet a person that does not offend in words is a perfect person (Jm3:2). The vehicle by which we utter words is a very small one and yet it causes the entire body to react. Some of the biggest and hardest situations we have gotten ourselves into has been because our tongue. James says that the tongue flames big fire (Jm3:5-6). The thing we can say changes the course of man and nature. Jesus said that his words are spirit (Jh6:63) and he shed a light on the things we say, that what we speak are spirit also; they go out and affect listeners and nature itself. James says that we can tame any and every beast under heaven except for one; the tongue (Jm3:8).