Criticisms, judgments, curses, blessings, crude jokes, idle words, and gossip. Which word doesn’t belong in the group?

Out of the scriptures James tells us that the “human tongue can be tamed by no man. It is a restless evil, full of deadly poison.” [James 3:8] When reading this weeks ago, I felt troubled. It wasn’t until this morning during prayer that God gave me the revelation. You see, even after I saw the Word that said the human tongue couldn’t be tamed, I still felt like I had to tame it. I was actually trying to do something that the Bible said was impossible by man. However, nothing is impossible with God right?

It is the Holy Spirit that gives us the ability to speak blessings. It is interesting that the first analogy James uses is about a fountain. He asks, “does a fountain send forth from the same opening fresh water and bitter?” [James 3:11] Who is the fountain?

The Holy Spirit does not inspire such harmful speech. We can reach that conclusion hopefully by using common sense. So how then can someone who is filled with the Holy Spirit speak evil out of the same mouth?

I leave you to ponder that…