Is Your Mouth Saved?
Colossians 3:8
8 But now you yourselves are to put off all these: anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy language out of your mouth.
Is Your Mouth Saved?
It amazes me that we can say we are saved but yet talk like nothing in our hearts have changed.
I’ve always hated the expression “If it wasn’t in there it wouldn’t come out”. Mainly because when it is said the words are more out of haughtiness than actual care for where that person could be spiritually.
Cuss Like a Sailor
My daddy was in the navy. The expression “cuss like a sailor” is pretty accurate. I grew up around much profanity and before the Lord saved me, I didn’t see anything wrong with it. I knew they weren’t polite words so you didn’t say them around certain people or situations, but other than that I would say whatever I wanted to.
Once The Lord corrected me however it was a whole different ball game.
Didn’t Change Overnight
Do you want to know the truth? It didn’t happen overnight. Just like all of the other things I did in the past I had to consciously say “no” to cussing.
I’ll be honest, it took a while. A very long while. I would say a bad word and immediately feel convicted and have to ask the Lord to forgive me. I would pray all the prayers. “Lord keep a watchman over my mouth so that I might not sin against You”. You know those scripture prayers that are supposed to help you cure it according to everyone who is really spiritual.
Answered Prayers
You know what I found out though? With those prayers, I would get about a 1 second warning form the Holy Ghost before the words would fly out of my mouth. Thank God for that 1 second warning because it caused the conviction to be even deeper. I knew God answered my prayer for help.
Make The Effort
I will admit it was a work in progress, but you have to be vigilant in that area. Stop listening to the words on tv, reading (and sharing) them online, and listening to them in music. Whatever you put in is what comes out. That is true.
Foul language grieves the Holy Spirit. You cannot profess to love and follow the Lord and continue to speak the same way you did before. It’s just not possible. We are a work in progress but cannot hang on to that excuse forever. You have to make a full effort to cease speaking that way and with God’s help you will be able to.
Ephesians 4:29-30, James 1:26, Matthew 12:37
**Lord thank You for loving me just the way I am. Thank You for the conviction that helps me to see where things need to change. God, I pray and ask that you forgive me if I have sinned against You with my words and ask that You keep a watchman over my mouth that I might not sin against You again. In Jesus name I pray, Amen.**
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