|
“Those things which proceed out of the mouth come forth from the heart; and they defile the man” (Matthew 15:18).
“Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh” (Matthew 12:34).
At the time that I am writing this, the 2021 summer Olympics are being held in Tokyo, Japan. Yesterday a girl from Australia won a gold medal in a swimming event, and she was very excited about it. During an interview with the news media afterward, she used a very vulgar swear word in her conversation, which everyone heard. But the people in the news media excused her, and commented, “Say whatever you want; you’re an Olympic gold medalist.”
Will God excuse us for saying something bad, simply because we may be good athletes? No, of course not. Why did that girl use such a word in her conversation? It was because that word was in her heart. Probably she was used to speaking like that in her everyday life, and when she was being recorded by the news media, the same kind of language came out of her mouth. But the Lord says that what comes out of our mouths defiles us.
The Bible says, “Every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment” (Matthew 12:36). Let us be careful about how we speak, and what words we store up in our hearts.
|
