Untameable
Post Title
I had trouble finding an appropriate title for this post, suggestions welcome after which I’ll be willing to ammend it!
Thanks Kez, “Untameable” it is!
Scripture
I’ve been contemplating the truths regarding the tongue that James chapter 3 puts forward. The passage is clear and powerful, I’ll let it speak for itself.
My brethren, let not many of you become teachers, knowing that we shall receive a stricter judgment. For we all stumble in many things. If anyone does not stumble in word, he is a perfect man, able also to bridle the whole body. Indeed, we put bits in horses’ mouths that they may obey us, and we turn their whole body. Look also at ships: although they are so large and are driven by fierce winds, they are turned by a very small rudder wherever the pilot desires. Even so the tongue is a little member and boasts great things.
See how great a forest a little fire kindles! And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity. The tongue is so set among our members that it defiles the whole body, and sets on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire by hell. For every kind of beast and bird, of reptile and creature of the sea, is tamed and has been tamed by mankind. But no man can tame the tongue. It is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison. With it we bless our God and Father, and with it we curse men, who have been made in the similitude of God. Out of the same mouth proceed blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not to be so. Does a spring send forth fresh water and bitter from the same opening? Can a fig tree, my brethren, bear olives, or a grapevine bear figs? Thus no spring yields both salt water and fresh.
James 3:1-12
Links of Interest
A couple of interesting articles from Dan Miller over at SharperIron:
Confessions of a Recovering Teenager
The Discipline of Pain in Parenting
There’s still a lot in the news about the government’s Internet filtering plan, here is one of those articles:
Communications Minister Stephen Conroy gets a blog bashing over web filtering
A somewhat unkind way to help people help themselves when looking for information online:
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Ooooh, okay…titles…um, well, we could go with ‘Tongue Twisters’ or ‘Size Matters Not’ or ‘Shut Your Trap’ or ‘Untameable’ or ‘Great Things come in Small Packages’ or maybe even ‘From the Horse’s Mouth’ or lastly ‘The Great Destroyer’! Just kidding! lol
Great post, Farid… =D I love that passage! =)
Wow. Glad Conroy is getting smacked for that comment. That’s really tacky.
Love the Google link. I wonder how many hundred times you’ve resisted using it on me. lol
@Kez – Thanks for the suggestions, note the amendment to the entry.
@Jason – I didn’t know about that website until recently, wouldn’t have resisted much before using it on you otherwise :)
Hehe, I was just kidding actually… =P
But thanks anyway… =D
Teach you to kid around with Farid. =P
Oh, well…glad to be of help! =D