Psalm 19: 14
May the words of my mouth and the thoughts of my heart be pleasing to You, O Lord, my Rock and my Redeemer.
We all need to be careful and watch what we allow to escape from our mouth or fingertips. James tells us that, "If anyone is never at fault in what he says, he is a perfect person, able to keep his whole body in check" (3:2). This means that we are all vulnerable to letting something unseemly slip out now and then.
O my Father, please help me! I am weak, I am helpless in my thoughts and words without Your guidance and discipline.
Please give me, give us all, accountability among our spiritual brothers and sisters, to hold each other up and to teach us Your ways, O Lord! that we not slip into a fool's ways.
We are foolish whenever we open our mouths or click send before thinking, or without thinking at all. Help us to remember to pause and consider how this will be received by the hearer, if it would be encouraging or critical.
Forgive us for the times we have wounded a dear sibling, and show us how to make our apologies and amends to one another, so that we all may be healed in our emotions and relationships.
And You, O God, our Creator, our Beginner and Finisher, will receive all the credit, all the glory, all the honor and all the blessing for everything You have done, are doing, and will finish, according to Your will, at Your pleasure, by Your plan and in Your time.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus!
