(Today we read James 3)

I grew up in southern Missouri near the Current River. It is a crystal clear river that is spring fed and fresh.

Every once and awhile my husband and I will take a vacation near the ocean. The one thing that impresses me is if I happen to get a little taste of the water in my mouth. YUCK! So Salty.

Our tongues are like a spring. What is down inside of us flows from our tongues in what we say. James says we are either a spring of “fresh water” or “salt water.” We speak either good from the good inside of our hearts or bad from the bad. H says, our mouths should not produce both “praise and cursing.”

“Can both fresh water and salt water flow from the same spring?…Neither can a salt spring produce fresh water.”
‭‭James‬ ‭3‬:‭11‬-‭12‬ ‭NIV‬‬

As believers, we have the Holy Spirit living in us. His life will flow through us. Jesus described it this way:

“Whoever believes in me, as Scripture has said, rivers of living water will flow from within them.” By this he meant the Spirit, whom those who believed in him were later to receive. Up to that time the Spirit had not been given, since Jesus had not yet been glorified.”
‭‭John‬ ‭7‬:‭38‬-‭39‬ ‭NIV‬‬

Our tongue — what we speak — must be under the influence of the Holy Spirit.

“A little salty…” is a slang term here in America for being angry and aggravated. We aren’t meant to be “a little salty.” We are meant to be “a whole lot fresh!”

The Holy Spirit wants to produce in us His fresh life giving water flowing from within. That is what God desires to flow out of our tongues!