A Person With Two Tongues

 

            How many tongues do you have?  If you answered one, you are absolutely wrong.  A few years ago, I heard a man named Otis say that every person has two tongues that we can use to share Christ with others.  

The first tongue is the tongue that is in our mouth.   James 3:7-8 says these words about the tongue, “All kinds of animals, birds, reptiles and creatures of the sea are being tamed by man, but no man can tame the tongue.  It is a restful evil, full of deadly poison”.  If you have ever said something to someone you wish you had not said or if you still know the hurt of words that were said to you, you know the truth of those words of scripture.   James speaks further about the tongue when he says in James 3:9-10:“With the tongue we praise our Lord and Father, and with it we curse men, who have been made in God’s likeness.  Out of the same mouth come praise and cursing.  My brothers, this should not be.

Otis went on to speak about a second tongue that we have-  the tongue in our shoe.  While Jesus and his early followers probably did not wear shoes like we wear, they did not stand still.   Jesus traveled from place to place sharing the message of God’s love in word and deed.   While the apostle Paul was not there when Jesus shared that commission to “Go into all the world and make disciples….”,  Paul let his feet do the walking to places like Galatia, Ephesus, and Rome.     For some of us the calling of Christ may take us to faraway places, but for most of us that calling is not around the world but simply around the block or down the street.    What are you doing with your two tongues in sharing the loving of Christ?   Does the tongue of your mouth bring praise to God, or does it curse men?     And how about the tongue in your shoe?    When was the last time when you went out of your way to share the love of Christ with someone simply through presence?    Have a joy-filled week.-  Pastor Randy Wall    

PRAYER-        God, help my lips and words to praise you.   Grant that I might let Christ be known in my words and the way I treat others.    Give me ears to hear the places you are calling me to serve in the places of this world and in the places I travel everyday;   through Christ our Lord.  Amen.