Mind your tongue
To sin is human, you may agree with it or not, but all of us do some sin in our
life time. The magnitude of the sin may differ from one to other, making some feel their sins are not countable. It is true that some of the sins we do are not of serious nature, hence don not affect neither the sinner nor others.
To err is human, is also true at any count, isn’t it. Bad words come from our mouth even we try to restrain ourselves, the peculiarity of the mind cannot make us full proof from talking bad at some time. Moreover, the talking we do by our tongues make the bad words flow out of mouth. That means, the tongue is greatly responsible for saying bad words. A small organ of the body the tongue does big work compare to some big organs of the body. It is like a match stick, small, weightless, innocent looking, by can create a inferno; the same way the tongue can create havoc. A deceitful and perverse tongue can kill a person’s self image that is equivalent to killing the person with respect. Humankind has conquered many wild animals, reached inaccessible spots, adventured in unknown danger, yet it could not tame that deceitful tongue. It can spread poison with so much heat that people become clueless to think what to do.
The same deceiving tongue prayed for the God, spread the good words for humankind, and sang the hymns. On one end, it blesses and on the other, it curses; the contrast is unfathomable.
So, what should we do with this truthful as well as untruthful tongue? The answer is to learn the techniques to
control it. Indeed, it is a difficult task to make our tongues behave in sober ways all the time. Difficult but not impossible it is. The practice needs to begin at a very tender age. Babies and children should be made to say all sociable words as much as possible. They should be taught to forgive more than becoming aggressive. And they should be lessoned to stay away from differences and fights, keeping them to self.
The adults should follow the practice of discarding inhuman attitude, which would bring tolerable mind and the tongue within the control. All efforts require an unrelenting daily input to make the purpose successful.