What’s in Your Mouth?

Communications experts tell us that the average person speaks enough to fill twenty single-spaced, typewritten pages every day. This means our mouths crank out enough words to fill two books of three hundred pages each month, twenty-four books each year, and twelve hundred books in fifty years of speaking. Thanks to phones, voicemail, and face-to-face conversations, words comprise a large part of our lives. So the kinds of words we use are important.

The psalmist’s mouth was filled with praise when he wrote Psalm 126. The Lord had done great things for him and his people. Even the nations around them noticed. Remembering God’s blessings, he said. “Our mouths were filled with laughter, our tongues with songs of joy” (v. 2).

What words would you have used in verse 3 had you been writing this psalm? So often our attitude seems to be: “The Lord has done great things for me, and I—

. . . can’t recall any of them right now.”

. . . am wondering what He’ll do for me next.”

. . . need much more.”

Or can you finish it by saying, “and I am praising and thanking Him for His goodness”? As you recall God’s blessings today, express your words of praise to Him.

—Anne Cetas