Be Still And Know

READ: James 3:3-5 NLT 'We can make a large horse go wherever we want by means of a small bit in its mouth. And a small rudder makes a huge ship turn wherever the pilot chooses to go, even though the winds are strong. In the same way, the tongue is a small thing that makes grand speeches. But a tiny spark can set a great forest on fire.' The tongue is incredibly powerful, for good or ill. I recall the story of the young man who had shared some gossip about the local clergyman. Having heard about the rumours the clergyman, with great gentleness and wisdom, took the young man to the top of the church tower. Once there he handed the young man a feather pillow and asked him to rip it open. The feathers floated all over the village and some of them lifted by the air currents headed off into the far distance. The clergyman invited the young man now to pop the feathers back into the pillow. The young man protested that that would be absolutely impossible and the clergyman pointed out that that was exactly the same wi