06 Apr Study Guide | James Week 7
“Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.” Ouch. Jesus’ words from Matthew 12 apply just as much to us as they did to the Pharisees who first heard them- perhaps even more so. Our sinful hearts make it tricky to navigate communication in a loving, tactful, and edifying way. And thanks to advanced technology, a myriad of relationships, and a frantic pace of work and home life, we find ourselves living in a day and age when communication is easier and more prominent than ever before. As we come to James’ well-known passage on taming the tongue and the way we wield words, it is safe to say his difficult words will expose and convict many of us of where we have been lax with our words, where we have spoken too much (or not said something when we know we should have!), and ways our wounding words simply reflect our spiritual brokenness. In the end, James wants us to see, a transformed tongue comes only through a transformed heart.
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