Whoops!

Whoops!

Today at work I let a not so good phrase come out of my mouth. Honestly, I don't know where it came from. I didn't rehearse it in my head or plan to say it, it just launched itself out. I was as surprised as my co-worker.

That isn't how I talk, nor do I want to be known as someone who speaks like that, nor do I want to represent Christ one moment and then curse Him the next moment. In the book of James, it speaks about someone who blesses and curses God and how it ought not to be like that. I completely agree, but, I was that guy today, and I hate that I was.

James 3:8-12
⁸ But no man can tame the tongue. It is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison. ⁹ With it we bless our God and Father, and with it we curse men, who have been made in the similitude of God. ¹⁰ Out of the same mouth proceed blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not to be so. ¹¹ Does a spring send forth fresh water and bitter from the same opening? ¹² Can a fig tree, my brethren, bear olives, or a grapevine bear figs? Thus no spring yields both salt water and fresh.