From The Heart, Out Of The Mouth!

I have said things and then wished that I could have taken them back, but once the mouth has spoken, there is no taking it back. I think that we all have been in this situation where we spoke before we thought. We are told many places that we need to watch what we say, for out of the mouth flows that which is in the heart.
Matthew; 12:34
(Brood of vipers! How can you, being evil, speak good things? For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks).
Here Jesus reminds us that what we say reveals what is in our heart. What we say is an indication of what our heart is really like. The way to clean up our speech is to allow the Holy Spirit to give us new attitudes and motives.

When the Pharisees and teachers of the law questioned Jesus about His disciples eating with unwashed hands and breaking the traditions of the elders, Jesus explained it this way.
Matthew; 15:17-20
(Do you not yet understand that whatever enters the mouth goes into the stomach and is eliminated? But those things which proceed out of the mouth come from the heart, and they defile the man. For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies. These are the things which defile a man, but to eat with unwashed hands does not defile the man.")

We are also told to speak only what will be edifying to the hearer.
Ephesians; 4:29
(Let no corrupt word proceed out of your mouth, but what is good for necessary edification, that it may impart grace to the hearers.)
Foul language of any sort should never pass a Christian's lips, because it is totally out of character with his new life in Christ. We are a new man in Christ and the old man is to be put off or done away with.
Colossians; 3:8-10
(But now you yourselves are to put off all these; anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy language out of your mouth. Do not lie to one another, since you have put off the old man with his deeds, and have put on the new man who is renewed in knowledge according to the image of Him who created him,)

In the Book of James we are told that fresh and bitter water will not come from the same spring, and that cursing and blessing should not come forth from our mouth. Here James is talking about taming the tongue.
James; 3:8-12
(But no man can tame the tongue. It is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison. With it we bless our God and Father, and with it we curse men, who have been made in the similitude of God. Out of the same mouth proceed blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not be so. Does a spring send forth fresh water and bitter from the same opening? Can a fig tree, my brethren, bear olives, or grapevines bear figs? Thus no spring yields both salt water and fresh.)

We as Christians need to be an example to the world, a light in a dark place. Those around us are watching us all the time to see the difference between our life and the rest of the world. If they watch and don't see a difference, they will assume that we are no different than they are so why should they give their life to Jesus. We can not go around with filthy speech and act like the rest of the world and expect them to come to Jesus. They will see no need of Jesus because we will appear to be just like them. Watch how you conduct your life, and allow Jesus to be in control of your mouth. Ask Him to clean out your heart so that just good and edifying things will flow from your mouth.

God Bless You!