A saying I frequent hear is “You can’t judge my heart!”
While only Jesus can gaze directly into the deeply hidden recesses of your heart and soul, there is at least one way every one else can determine what kind of heart you have.
That is by what you say when you open your mouth. Jesus said, “But those things which proceed out of the mouth come forth from the heart; and they defile the man. 19 For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies:” Mt.15:18-19
When you open your mouth to speak, YOU uncover your heart and reveal it to the world.
Ask your self these questions: Am I a picky eater? Am I afraid to taste certain foods because they look “NASTY?” If I put in my mouth nasty and smelly things, would my friends declare me “weird” and stay away from me?
Jesus said, “There is nothing from without a man, that entering into him can defile him: but the things which come out of him, those are they that defile the man.” MK. 7:15
You see, it’s not what goes into us that pollutes us, but what come out of our mouths revealing our hearts, who we really are inside.
If only we were as picky about what we said, as we are about what we eat. Think about it.
Rory Craig Keel