Daily Lesson for November 13, 2017

Today’s Daily Lesson comes from Matthew chapter 15 verses 16 through 19:

16Then he said, ‘Are you also still without understanding? 17Do you not see that whatever goes into the mouth enters the stomach, and goes out into the sewer? 18But what comes out of the mouth proceeds from the heart, and this is what defiles. 19For out of the heart come evil intentions, murder, adultery, fornication, theft, false witness, slander. 

The mouth is a window into the soul. What we say says a lot more about us than it does whomever we are talking about. When we speak about others we tell on ourselves. 

Here’s some questions for considering what we say and what it says about us:

— Do the words I use reveal hidden aggression, envy, or jealousy inside me?

— Do my words reveal secret sexual desire?

— Do I use Race as a dog whistle when describing someone’s morality?  Do my words betray other kinds of prejudices I am unaware of in myself?

— Does what I condemn in others actually reveal my own internal and unresolved issues?

We need to watch our words because they may be saying a lot more than we think.