If you knew that you
had to engage in a street fight with someone today, you’d prepare. Not wanting
to fight wouldn’t help if the fight were inevitable. Ignoring the fight would
only ensure your loss. The Bible says that you are in a daily battle for the
control of your words. Scripture warns that your “tongue is a fire, a world of
evil among the parts of the body. It corrupts the whole person, sets the whole
course of life on fire, and is itself set on fire by hell” (Jms.3:6). James
then goes on to say that it needs to be tamed, arrested and controlled. Each of
us will battle today with that unruly, disruptive and powerful force. We must
win this battle. We must prepare every day. We must start each day with a call
for God’s help. We must seek the power of God’s Spirit to endow us with
self-control (Gal.5:22-23). We must be conscious of this daily battle before it
begins. May God give us the vigilance, the wisdom and the strength to mitigate
the damage and marshal this powerful foe into submission. May we, with God’s
help, successfully “offer the parts of our bodies to God as instruments of
righteousness” (Ro.6:13) no matter how difficult the fight might be.
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