A survey conducted several years ago revealed that the average person speaks about 18,000 words a day—enough to fill 54 pages of a book. In a year’s time this would be enough words to fill 66 books 600 pages long!
Since speech is such a vital part of our lives you might assume that God is concerned about its proper use. He most certainly is! Christianity is not only a way of thinking, acting, and feeling, but also a way of speaking. No one is living a Christian life who has not given his lips and speech to God. No one is truly converted until his tongue is converted.
There is no area of life where we are more likely to fail God. As Charles Spurgeon once said, “If all of man’s sins were divided into two bundles, half of them would be sins of the to...