" What Is In Your Mouth ? "

     Have you ever listened to peoples conversations. I don't mean that you purposely eavesdrop but you randomly hear conversations in restaurants or waiting in line or just about anywhere you happen to be these days. If you are like me you've noticed that there is a lot of unhappy and unkind people talking into their hands....OOPS !!! I mean their Smart phones. I don't have one of those things because I have enough trouble just maneuvering around on this laptop !!! But it amazes me what tiny, insignificant things seem to get under the skin and eventually out through the mouth of people. I suppose if it were happening to me I wouldn't be so glib about these annoyances. But of all those conversations that I have been privy to, there is only one person that I know of, from HIS conversations HE was gracious, loving and straightforward with HIS hearers.
     In 1st.Peter 2:18 thru 25 Peter was inspired by the HOLY SPIRIT to pen these words to those who have to deal out in the world of business, and I think that is just about any True Born Again Christian these days.............. Servants, be submissive to your masters with all fear, not only to the good and gentle, but also to the harsh. For this is commendable, if because of conscience toward GOD one endures grief, suffering wrongfully. For what credit is it if, when you are beaten for your faults, you take it patiently ? But when you do good and suffer for it, if you take it patiently, this is commendable before GOD. For to this you were called, because CHRIST also suffered for us, leaving us and example, that you should follow HIS steps:

          Who committed no sin,
          Nor was guile found in HIS mouth.

WHO when HE was reviled did not revile in return; when HE suffered, HE did not threaten, but committed HIMSELF to HIM WHO judges righteously; WHO HIMSELF bore our sins in HIS own body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live for righteousness--by WHOSE stripes you were healed. For you were like sheep going astray, but have now returned to the SHEPHERD and OVERSEER of your souls.
     Now no guile was found in our LORD and SAVIOR's mouth and I am pretty sure that is what is being taught here to us who are HIS followers. James was also inspired to write about the tongue, which is part of your mouth, in James 3:1 thru 12 that it is full of deadly poisons and cannot be tamed. Here is a portion from 5 thru 12............ 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 blessings and cursing's, 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 can yield both salt water and fresh.

     As Christians, I know that it is sometimes hard to hold our piece, but if we do, HE will give us HIS gracious and wise words at the proper time. HE even said that we are not to worry about what to say if and when we are persecuted for the faith.  The SPIRIT will give us the WORDS and the power in which to use them when the time is right. Our LORD and SAVIOR JESUS CHRIST was absolutely the most gracious user of HIS mouth. HE looked down from the cross and gave instructions to John about the caring of HIS Mother after HE was gone back into heaven. From the cross, HIS mouth was full of forgiveness not only for one of the thieves who admitted his need of forgiveness but also to all, FATHER forgive them for they know not what they do.
     Now I also know that the LORD was an advocate for " Righteous Anger " which HE displayed in the Temple, when the moneychangers and the sellers of sacrificial animals were doing so in the Temple area and not outside. Of course they were also price gouging the people who traveled from afar and had to buy their animals or birds there instead of bringing them from home. But even in HIS "Righteous Anger",  HIS WORDs were truthful and to the point. GOD the SON loved GOD the FATHER and the men had made HIS FATHER's House into a den of thieves, and this should not have been allowed. It actually was a condemnation of the Temple leaders. They knew the law and the purchasing of the sacrificed animals was to be done in the Marketplace not in the Temple area. But this type of anger is only called for in certain instances and if you are clean and open to the SPIRIT's leading, HE will give you the WORD's to say and at the proper time.

     Now this info is for the Believer, the Truly Born Again Christian and not for one who has never accepted the LORD JESUS CHRIST as his personal SAVIOR.  Now to you I speak, GOD's WORD says that today is the day of Salvation. YOU ARE A SINNER, so am I but I, through the SPIRIT of GOD's leading, recognized that I was a sinner, condemned to a Devils Hell, without hope, nor was I able to DO anything to get myself into heaven or DO anything to pay for my sins.  But THANKS BE TO GOD FOR HIS GREAT GIFT OF SALVATION.  John 3:16 still sums it up best...... For GOD so loved the world that HE gave HIS only begotten SON that whomsoever believes in HIM shall not perish but have everlasting life.
Bow your head, call on the LORD JESUS, admit you are a sinner in need of a SAVIOR, believe that HE died for you personally and rose again, ask HIM into your heart and life to save you, HE WILL, and then the words coming out of your mouth will be in a song of PRAISE HIM, PRAISE HIM, JESUS our blessed REDEEMER, for our sins HE suffered and bled and died, JESUS SAVIOR reigneth forever and ever, crown HIM, crown HIM, JESUS the crucified !!!!!
Your servant in CHRIST,
Julie