Set a guard

Anyone who has children will vouch for what I am about to say - they will repeat anything you say, and at the most inopportune time. Not that we have had an embarrassing moment, yet, but I know it is coming. Our two are like sponges that only seem to pick up the worst of my behavior. I pray daily that I will set a good example.

But, even the little things. For example, I apologized one evening for being a bit of a butthole during the day. Now, I hadn't abused anyone or talked down to anyone but I had been short a couple of times and not as nice as I should have been and had apologized for being a butthole, which I had been. Well, if you don't think a three-year-old and a two-year-old picked up on that, you have never had a three-year-old or two-year-old.

Today's word is Psalm 141:3, NIV, which reads, "Set a guard over my mouth, LORD; set watch over the door of my lips."

I don't ever want to say something that will cause someone to miss JESUS, that will cause someone to fail because I did. I will say, again, that you would be hard pressed to ever hear a foul or curse word from me but I have my slang, and our little ones eat it up. I bet that those that watch my Christian witness do too.

I pray that GOD will guard my mouth and not allow me to offend or turn anyone off from Him.

Be Blessed,
Mickey T