Have you ever thought about the words that come out of your mouth? Not the ones you spend a lot of time thinking about and planning the placement of every adjective and noun. The ones that come that you instantly wish you could take back.
Many times we convince ourselves, and maybe even the other person that we didn’t mean to say them. But the real question is, why did we say those words in the first place? The Bible gives us the answer,
“A good man out of good treasures of his heart brings forth good; and an evil man out of the evil treasures of his heart brings forth evil. For out of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaks” – Luke 6: 45.
You see, the thing about it is that our thoughts will eventually come out of our mouths.
In Matthew 12, Jesus finds Himself in the presence of the pharisees as He so often was during His ministry. It’s starts out with their criticism of Jesus’s disciples who chose to pluck some heads of grain rather than go hungry. But, it quickly disintegrates into a sermon about whether it was right to heal on the Sabbath day until they finally accused the Son of God of being in league with the devil.
They perfectly exhibited what Jesus meant about their words coming out of the treasury of their hearts. The pharisees had gotten so used to judging the actions of the people based on the Law of Moses that they had begun to judge the people based on their actions.
You see, in the opinion of the scribes and Pharisees could do no wrong and the people could do no right. These beliefs played out in the Gospels and the book of Acts.
I think we all have a little scribe of pharisee in us. We judge people based on their actions (even though the Bible says “do not judge.” We think snide, sometimes unkind words about people around us. These thoughts eventually come out in the way we treat them and the words we use when we speak to them.
The Bible tells us “Life and death are in the power of the tongue.” When I chose to follow Jesus I asked Him to renew my mind so that when out of the abundance of my heart that I only have good things to say.
From Pity to Praise 