Your mouth

November 27, 2007

I grew up Catholic. I am not putting them down, they have done many good and bad things just like so many other religions and religious people. One of the rules that they had was we were not to eat meat on Fridays. It was true in my earlier years, but they later revised it so that only during Lent, the time between Easter and the 40 days before it, that we were not to eat meat on Fridays. Because of that I grew up hating fish and was not to fond of Pizza (cheese only) either. Seems that is all we had on Friday. It was to respect the fact that Jesus died on a Friday that we did it. If we did not do it we were sinning.

Mark 7:15 CEV
(15) The food that you put into your mouth doesn't make you unclean and unfit to worship God. The bad words that come out of your mouth are what make you unclean."

Now that I am grown up I can look at verses like this and see that is not true. It is not what we put into our mouths that makes us sin, it is what comes out of us. Do we lie to get our way? Do we say harmful things to people because they hurt us? Do we stretch the truth to make itconvenient for ourselves?

Let's take our words as well as our thoughts captive.