Out of the same mouth come praise and cursing. My brothers and sisters, this should not be. Can both fresh water and salt water flow from the same spring?
James 3:10-11
Have you ever blurted something out and immediately regretted it? When we catch ourselves in moments like that, we often say to ourselves, “I shouldn’t have said that.” But for most of us, it stops right there. Have you ever dug deeper than that? I’ve been doing this more and more recently; after I’ve said, “I shouldn’t have said that,” I’ve thought about it some more and wondered, “Why did I say that? Where did that come from? What’s happening within me that’s making those kinds of words spill out?” I’m realizing more and more that our words are an overflow of our hearts. If we simply try to control our language or watch what we say, we might be simply working on the external behaviors instead of dealing with the tough work of internal spiritual health. Often times, we try to work from the outside in but what God really wants to do is transform us from the inside out. Before God can truly work on our words, God needs to heal our hearts.
