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The most powerful organ of our body // O órgão mais poderoso do nosso corpo


What we speak should always pass through a filter and be analyzed if what we are about to say will build somebody up of demolishing somebody life. Everything has consequences. If you have nothing good to say, better to say nothing.
In James chapter 3 he is talking about to watch what we speak but also the consequences of what we speak. That is why we should be always seeking for wisdom that comes from God.
When You Open Your Mouth
1-2 Don’t be in any rush to become a teacher, my friends. Teaching is highly responsible work. Teachers are held to the strictest standards. And none of us is perfectly qualified. We get it wrong nearly every time we open our mouths. If you could find someone whose speech was perfectly true, you’d have a perfect person, in perfect control of life.
3-5 A bit in the mouth of a horse controls the whole horse. A small rudder on a huge ship in the hands of a skilled captain sets a course in the face of the strongest winds. A word out of your mouth may seem of no account, but it can accomplish nearly anything—or destroy it!
5-6 It only takes a spark, remember, to set off a forest fire. A careless or wrongly placed word out of your mouth can do that. By our speech we can ruin the world, turn harmony to chaos, throw mud on a reputation, send the whole world up in smoke and go up in smoke with it, smoke right from the pit of hell.
7-10 This is scary: You can tame a tiger, but you can’t tame a tongue—it’s never been done. The tongue runs wild, a wanton killer. With our tongues we bless God our Father; with the same tongues we curse the very men and women he made in his image. Curses and blessings out of the same mouth!
10-12 My friends, this can’t go on. A spring doesn’t gush fresh water one day and brackish the next, does it? Apple trees don’t bear strawberries, do they? Raspberry bushes don’t bear apples, do they? You’re not going to dip into a polluted mud hole and get a cup of clear, cool water, are you?
Live Well, Live Wisely
13-16 Do you want to be counted wise, to build a reputation for wisdom? Here’s what you do: Live well, live wisely, live humbly. It’s the way you live, not the way you talk, that counts. Mean-spirited ambition isn’t wisdom. Boasting that you are wise isn’t wisdom. Twisting the truth to make yourselves sound wise isn’t wisdom. It’s the furthest thing from wisdom—it’s animal cunning, devilish conniving. Whenever you’re trying to look better than others or get the better of others, things fall apart and everyone ends up at the others’ throats.
17-18 Real wisdom, God’s wisdom, begins with a holy life and is characterized by getting along with others. It is gentle and reasonable, overflowing with mercy and blessings, not hot one day and cold the next, not two-faced. You can develop a healthy, robust community that lives right with God and enjoy its results only if you do the hard work of getting along with each other, treating each other with dignity and honor.
The Message (MSG)

O que nós falamos deveria sempre passar por um filtro e ser analisado se o que estamos para dizer vai elevar o ânimo da pessoa ou destruir a vida dela. Tudo tem consequência. Se você não tem nada de bom para dizer, melhor dizer nada.
No capítulo 3 de Tiago ele está falando para que estejamos atentos no que vamos falar, mas também nas consequências do que falamos. Por isso que nós devemos sempre estar buscando sabedoria que vem de Deus.
O domínio da língua
Meus irmãos, não se armem em sabichões. Não se esqueçam que quem ensina será sujeita a um julgamento mais rigoroso de Deus.
Todos nós cometemos erros. Quem puder dominar perfeitamente o seu falar poderá considerar-se perfeito e capaz de controlar todo o seu ser.Podemos dominar um possante cavalo por meio dum pequeno freio na sua boca. E um pequeno leme faz um grande navio virar para onde o piloto quiser, mesmo quando há forte vento. O mesmo se passa com a língua. Um membro bem pequeno, mas que pode gabar-se de grandes coisas! Uma floresta inteira pode ser incendiada por uma simples faísca.Pois também a língua é como um fogo. Ela é mesmo um mundo de maldade, e é capaz de contaminar todo o nosso ser. Alimentada com o fogo do inferno, é capaz de inflamar a nossa existência.
Toda a espécie de animais se pode subjugar, animais ferozes, répteis, aves e até peixes. Todos se podem domar. Mas ninguém consegue dominar a sua língua. É um mal que não se pode sujeitar; ela está sempre pronta a expelir veneno mortal. Com ela damos louvores ao Senhor nosso Pai, e outras vezes dizemos as piores coisas contra os homens, que são feitos à semelhança de Deus. 10 Assim, a mesma boca emite bênçãos e roga pragas. Meus irmãos, não está certo que seja assim. 11 Será que da mesma fonte pode sair água doce, e água salobra?12 E uma figueira pode produzir azeitonas, ou uma videira figos? A mesma fonte também não pode dar água boa e má ao mesmo tempo.
Dois tipos de sabedoria
13 Quem no vosso meio tem sabedoria e bom entendimento? Então que o mostre pela sua conduta e através da sua maneira de ser sensata e humana. 14 Mas se no vosso coração houver inveja e espírito de intriga, então é que não poderá haver razão para se gabarem de uma sabedoria que não possuem, mentindo contra a verdade. 15 Essa pseudo sabedoria não vem certamente do céu. Mas é mundana, não espiritual e inspirada pelo Diabo; 16 porque, onde houver inveja e rivalidade, aí há­de certamente reinar a discórdia, e tudo o resto que possa existir de mal.
17 Mas a sabedoria que vem de Deus é acima de tudo isenta de toda a maldade; além disso é amante da paz, sóbria, tolerante e compreensiva, cheia de misericórdia e de boas acções, imparcial e sem hipocrisia.18 Aqueles que promovem a paz estão como que a lançar sementes que darão como fruto a justiça.
(Tiago 3 – Biblia versão - O livro)

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