This week I paid my normal monthly visit to the chiropractor. Over time I have developed a friendship with everyone there and enjoy my conversations with them all. At checkout, I was casually talking with some of the employees and I mentioned some of the early jobs I had and some of them were, well- unpleasant, if not downright disgusting. I shouldn't have said anything, but I did and on the way home my wife scolded me for it. She was right in doing so. I was wrong, period.
Most of us can recall things we have said that we should not have let come out of our mouths. Innocently or no, sometimes things just happen; especially if we feel very comfortable in our circumstances.
The apostle James says...
James, Chapter 3 (WEB)
1 Let not many of you be teachers, my brothers, knowing that we will receive heavier judgment. 2 For we all stumble in many things. Anyone who doesn’t stumble in word is a perfect person, able to bridle the whole body also. 3 Indeed, we put bits into the horses’ mouths so that they may obey us, and we guide their whole body. 4 Behold, the ships also, though they are so big and are driven by fierce winds, are yet guided by a very small rudder, wherever the pilot desires. 5 So the tongue is also a little member, and boasts great things. See how a small fire can spread to a large forest! 6 And the tongue is a fire. The world of iniquity among our members is the tongue, which defiles the whole body, and sets on fire the course of nature, and is set on fire by Gehenna. 7 For every kind of animal, bird, creeping thing, and sea creature, is tamed, and has been tamed by mankind; 8 but nobody can tame the tongue. It is a restless evil, full of deadly poison. 9 With it we bless our God and Father, and with it we curse men who are made in the image of God. 10 Out of the same mouth comes blessing and cursing. My brothers, these things ought not to be so.
The passage from James is an indictment to us all; especially to myself. As far as the picture goes- you can learn a lot from a dog!!!