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Foot-in-Mouth Disease
There are some who open their mouths just long enough to change feet. We say that we have our foot in our mouth when we say something that is embarrassing, foolish or wrong—something we wish we had not spoken.
It is better to slip with your foot than it is to slip with your tongue. In either case, a fall is the result. When we slip with our foot, we hurt ourselves; when we slip with our tongue, we can hurt others as well as ourselves (James 3:3, 8).
When a person says little, people consider him to be wise. We can prevent a lot of slips of the tongue by learning to listen and to pause and think before we speak. There is no antidote for foot-in-mouth disease. Sometimes it destroys the whole person. But we can start anew each day to be better than before. Prevention is the cure.
There are some who open their mouths just long enough to change feet. We say that we have our foot in our mouth when we say something that is embarrassing, foolish or wrong—something we wish we had not spoken.
It is better to slip with your foot than it is to slip with your tongue. In either case, a fall is the result. When we slip with our foot, we hurt ourselves; when we slip with our tongue, we can hurt others as well as ourselves (James 3:3, 8).
When a person says little, people consider him to be wise. We can prevent a lot of slips of the tongue by learning to listen and to pause and think before we speak. There is no antidote for foot-in-mouth disease. Sometimes it destroys the whole person. But we can start anew each day to be better than before. Prevention is the cure.
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Comment by CESAR HUSMILLO on June 20, 2010 at 9:27am
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Thank you Kathleen for reminding us not to be so quick lashing out words that discourage or hurt our hearts. Praying to the Holy Spirit protect us from doing such thing.
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Comment by Christopher Kendall on June 19, 2010 at 5:34am
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I was blessed as I read foot in mouth the tounge is a unruly part and no man is able to tame You are a blessing
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Comment by Amanuel Kussia Guyalo on June 15, 2010 at 11:55pm
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There is saying in our language that states "when your leg is broken, you can assemble it but if your tongue's word breaks others moral you can not assemble them" The poison that flows from our mouth can kill thousands of people that we interact with. Our enemy Satan is expansively searching for our weaknesses and our mouth would be most probably the best area to him to attack us .There fore, let all of us pray for each other and ask our almighty God to keep our mouth and blesses our words to cherish people rather than ruining them. Kathleen GOD blesses you forever!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Comment by Tikkie on June 15, 2010 at 2:04am
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You have said it in a very Humourous way.In Our language we have a saying, The words that leave Our mouth and the Weapns that leave Our hands cannot be taken back.Let us always Pray to know HIS will and to be guided By HIM.Let us also Pray that we are filled BY HIS LOVE
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Comment by Dymund on June 14, 2010 at 11:53am
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An excellent suggestion! If more people would do that, there would be a lot less pain in the world! God is working on me with the same message for some time now, and I am doing better, but not perfected yet!
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Thank you Kathleen a much needed message and remind to us all....We've all been guilty of this one time or another......Sometimes we don't stop to know God is around and giving us a message....We are so caught up in our lives to hear the voice of God....
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Comment by kathleen aldea on June 14, 2010 at 5:15am
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The tongue has the power of life and death, and those who love it will eat its fruit.-- Prov. 18:21
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