His Secret Place
Title: Who Controls Your Tongue?
by Fay Davidson
Who Controls Your Tongue?
Bible Study 10
Who Controls your Tongue?
James 3:5-6
Likewise the tongue is a small part of the body, but it makes great boasts.
Consider what a great forest is set on fire by a small spark. The tongue
also is a fire, a world of evil among the parts of the body. It corrupts
the whole person, sets the whole course of his life on fire, and is itself
set on fire by hell. James 3: 5-6.
It is through the tongue that the power
of God becomes manifest in our lives. God is after purifying our tongue
once our hearts are turned towards him, as it can become a stumbling block
to the outflowing of his power in the life of those of us who seek to follow
in his steps.
Isaiah was a prophet seeking the face of God and prophesying the things
of God. Yet when he came face-to-face with God and had a personal intimate
encounter with him, he had to confess his own sinfulness. It was then, that
one of the seraphim (in the presence of God) came forward, and with a thong,
took a live coal from the altar and touched Isaiah’s lips – and pronounced
him cleansed and whole. At that point, after he had been cleansed, Isaiah
could hear the voice of God calling someone for service and he told God
that he would go for him.
On the day of Pentecost, the day, which fulfilled
Christ’s promise of the coming of the fullness of the Holy Spirit upon his
disciples, the evidence came through tongues of fire, which sat upon each
of their heads. When the fire, shaped like tongues sat upon their head,
their lips were opened and they began to speak the word of God with power
and with boldness. That was the evidence of the Holy Spirit. The power
of God was manifest in their tongue and they preached Christ, cast out demons,
healed the sick and delivered people from bondage through the power of the
Holy Spirit and their sanctified tongue.
As followers of Christ, we must
live a holy life, but it is through our tongues that the power of God is
manifest and people’s lives are changed.
James describes the tongue as ‘a fire’, ‘a world of evil’ which can corrupt
the whole person and set the entire course of his life on fire.
‘If anyone
is never at fault in what he says, he is a perfect man, able to keep his
whole body in check. James 3:2b
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