Kiss Your Mother With that Mouth?

Perhaps you’ve heard that question asked of someone that had something foul to say. It is a simple idea really – how can one express the kind of love reserved for the one that brought us into the world with the same mouth that uses profanity, gossips, lies or any other of a host of evil actions our tongue can carry out for us? James 3 asks the essentially the same question of us in verses 9 -10 when we praise the Father yet curse man.

James also compares our tongue to the bit in a horse’s mouth and a…