Join us as we read the scriptures and a daily devotion written by Don Crisp. We pray these messages will bless us all at this time.
Wed 24th June – James 3:9-12
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Wed 24th June – Read James 3:9-12
V9: And how inconsistent our use of our tongue can be – we “bless God” – in praise and prayer and thanksgiving and worship – yet in the next breath we may ” curse people” – not necessarily literally, but to speak ill of them in so many ways – and those we so malign are ” made in the image of God” (Genesis 1:26.) Can we not see the irony of this?
V10: So, our mouths can be properly used and sadly abused. This should not be so. These verses may seem very simple, even obvious, but may none of us “skim them” or take them glibly. They challenge us all.
V11: Such inconsistency is really ” against nature”, where the same source of water cannot produce both fresh and salt water.
V12: Similarly (in an image used by Jesus Himself in Matthew 7:15-18) fig trees or vines cannot produce the fruit of a different plant, but only that which is proper to themselves – so it should be with our use of our tongues as Christians, but sadly so often we are inconsistent. Again we see how much in this letter does recall the Sermon on the Mount. Was James there, we might well ask?