Our ‘little pink mouth blob’!

Winston Churchill once said: ‘We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out.’

In this column, as we’ve looked at Respectable Sins in the Letter of James, he has challenged how we use our mouths too much and our ears and hands too little. He then goes in for the kill in Chapter 3 – that whopping respectable sin – how we misuse our tongues.

James begins by warning us that we should not rush into being teachers of God’s truth. We will think about that next time. For now, let’s look at what he says about all our tongues: ‘We all stumble in many ways. Anyone who is never at fault in what they say is perfect, able to keep their whole body in check.’