What Sins of the Tongue Reveal
This morning in our Sonship phone discipleship hour, our discipler had us read two paragraphs from the Sonship manual in light of las week's "Tongue Assignment." Here is the first of the paragraphs. Read it. Weep. Repent. And believe the gospel afresh!
"Our tongues... show us how spiritually proud and self-righteous we are. For example, my critial tongue often reveals a heart that is sadly out of touch with how much I have received grace, love and forgiveness. I know this because it is not loving things that are overflowing through my tongue, but instead a spirit of being better and knowing better than others. I am right and they are wrong, and I need to point it out so everyone is clear about it. I complain because I know that I am right and everyone else is wrong. Likewise, my instinctive defensiveness and inability to apologize sincerely and quickly demonstrates that I am not really trusting in Christ to be my reputation and righteousness. I must uphold my good record of performance before others. I need people to know that I am better than they think (when in fact I can safely say I am actually worse than they think!). These and other failures prove how easily I slip away from living out of the gospel."
