Appearances are one thing, but it is the inside of the person that counts. We may be able to fool the world by how we look, but the Lord knows the heart of man.
"He who has a wayward and crooked mind finds no good, and he who has a willful and contrary tongue will fall into calamity." Proverbs 17:20, Amplified
There are two people being spoken of here in this verse. First the one with the wayward and crooked heart. He finds no good because his mind is perverse. He has filled his mind with so much evil that this is all that he can think about. He finds no good because he looks for no good. Then there is the man with the willful and contrary tongue. This is the man that has allowed for his tongue to control his life. "But no man can tame the tongue. It is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison." (James 3:8, NKJV) There is a difference between taming and subduing. There are man times that I want to say something, but my tongue is subdued. Imagine the man who does not have Christ; his tongue lashing out at everyone.
Is there hope for either one? Of course. You and I both could easily have fit into the role of either before we came to Christ. We made a choice, however, to subdue the body and surrender to Christ.
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