The Purity of the Tongue - Samuel Murray

Following on from the hugely successful Listooder Games Night, a large crowd gathered for the first meeting of the season. Samuel Murray, formerly of one of the local churches, now ministering in Tandragee, brought the message from God’s Word. In a world that is increasingly hard for a young Christian to take a stand, the purity of the Christian life is very difficult to maintain. In all the aspects of our lives, a Godly standard is what is required of us by our Saviour. Our thoughts, our paths, our actions can speak both for and against the Lord of heaven, but no one part of us can be so useful, while at the same time so harmful, to the work of the Lord as the tongue. In James chapter 3, we read of the mighty potential which the tongue possesses. Likened to a small flame capable of utter destruction, a tiny rudder with the power to steer a large vessel and a ‘bit’ in the mouth of a horse, the tongue has mighty potential to both encourage and to cast down. It is a beast that no man can tame, bringing both a blessing and a curse in the same breath, yet God has declared that nothing is impossible with Him. As believers, it is our responsibility to seek God for His help to guard our speech. Without His power we cannot truly speak forth the truth of Christ, we cannot prevent our speech becoming tainted by the world. But James speaks in chapter 3 about ‘the wisdom that is from above’, a wisdom that is ‘first pure, then peacable, gentle and easy to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy’. Surely as believers, this is the wisdom that we should strive for, this is the speech that we should desire, and praise God He has promised us that wisdom and that speech, if we seek Him for it. Listen to the message below, as Samuel Murray outlines both the dangers and the desire, and as young believers may we make this our own desire…to follow after Christ in all our words, our thoughts and deeds, and may He be pleased to make our lives examples of His love and His salvation.