It is amazing how powerful the tongue really is. It can change the course of human events for good or for evil. It can make or destroy relationships. The tongue used properly can plant good seed to the saving of a soul, or it can prove out hypocrisy and cause a soul to shun the Lord we profess.
By it a good man can be ill spoken of and his reputation is destroyed. So small a member yet so powerful. “Even so the tongue is a little member and boasts great things” (James 3:5). James describes the “tongue is a fire, a world of [a]iniquity“, and says that “it defiles the whole body, and sets on fire the course of [b]nature; and it is set on fire by [c]hell” (James 3:6).
So much power must be kept under control by the Spirit that God gives us so that we use it for the good and the glory of His kingdom.