Today's Verses:

James 3:5-6 (NIV)
5 Likewise the tongue is a small part of the body, but it makes great boasts. Consider what a great forest is set on fire by a small spark. 6 The tongue also is a fire, a world of evil among the parts of the body. It corrupts the whole person, sets the whole course of his life on fire, and is itself set on fire by hell.

This verse requires no explanation. We all know how much damage that we can do with words that we say with our tongue.

Today's Comments: As I once stated, the old adage that sticks and stones will break your bones, but names will never hurt you, has been disproved time and time again. Wars have been started over simple words spoken by the tongue. Empires have fallen over verbal disagreements as to what words mean. And now, as tomorrow begins the National Convention of the Episcopal Church, we may see the damage within our beloved church that tongues can do. I pray for sanity on both sides. I pray that God's counsel through scripture will prevail and that His wisdom will reveal itself in our restraint and love for one another. If our church is to break up, it will because of the tongue. It will be the words which define marriage; it will be the words of defiance against the whole of the Anglican Communion; it will be the words of men who fail to honor the Word of God in scripture. These words will come from the tongue.