Do you have a chain saw?

It's a powerful tool and used correctly. It can make life easier and faster when you're

trying to prune branches or take down a tree. But if you're not careful with the chain

saw, it can actually do more damage than good. Today on Truth For Life Weekend, we'll

find out how our words are like a chain saw. They can either be helpful or harmful.

Alistair Begg is continuing a series he's titled Wise Words.

Proverbs chapter 13. And our launching pad verse, if you like, to what is yet another

topic of study on usual for us. But I think profitable at the moment will be the third

verse. Proverbs chapter 13 and verse 3. In Solomon writes, he who guards his lips, guards

his life. But he who speaks rashly will come to ruin. It's probably superfluous for

me to begin with this question. Do you remember your children's first words? Some of the

dads may have a little difficulty, but most of the mums will be on it immediately. Indeed,

every so often in the course of conversation as your children grow, something triggers

in your mind, the first phraseology of their tiny lives. And you get very nostalgic about

it. And you tell them, I remember exactly what it was. You said, as young parents, we

were very eager to hear our children put a phrase together. Any kind of phrase, it would

be fine. Just say something. We're desperate. Having found that they can walk to discover

if they're able to talk. We recall, even now, through the years, the inexpressible joy

that was represented in hearing them say, for the very first time, daddy or mummy or my

daddy, which would be even better, or my mom, we can recall still those of us who are

a little older, the evenings when we inquired of them how their day had been, and we listened

attentively as they recounted the activities of the day, giving us a blow by blow account.

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