The Tongue
“those who say, ‘With our tongue we will prevail, our lips are with us; who is master over us?’”
~Psalm 12:4
“God has given us that most excellent talent of speech. ‘Thou has given me a tongue,’ says the ancient writer, ‘that I may praise Thee therewith.’ For this purpose was it given to all the children of men to be employed in glorifying God. Nothing, therefore, is more ungrateful or more absurd than to think or say, ‘Our tongues are our own.’ That cannot be, unless we have created ourselves, and so are independent of the Most High. Nay, but ‘It is He that hath made us, and not we ourselves’: the manifest consequence is that He is still Lord over us, in this as in all other respects. It follows that there is not a word of our tongue for which we are not accountable to Him.”
~John Wesley
~Psalm 12:4
“God has given us that most excellent talent of speech. ‘Thou has given me a tongue,’ says the ancient writer, ‘that I may praise Thee therewith.’ For this purpose was it given to all the children of men to be employed in glorifying God. Nothing, therefore, is more ungrateful or more absurd than to think or say, ‘Our tongues are our own.’ That cannot be, unless we have created ourselves, and so are independent of the Most High. Nay, but ‘It is He that hath made us, and not we ourselves’: the manifest consequence is that He is still Lord over us, in this as in all other respects. It follows that there is not a word of our tongue for which we are not accountable to Him.”
~John Wesley
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