How do I shift away from speaking with a razor sharp tongue?

How do I shift away from speaking with a razor sharp tongue of criticalness?

First, let’s take inventory. We must start with reality in order to deal with our life and grow.

1. Are you critical?
2. Has someone told YOU that you are critical?
3. Do you walk into a room and slice it apart as you can trouble shoot anything that is wrong in the room?
4. Do you dismantle a good day by taking apart someone?
5. Do you try to control someone by tearing them apart?
6. Do you snap at people to jump to your bidding?
7. Do you tear someone down because you see yourself in their issues, and yet  you want to hide your own?
8. Do you dislike your criticalness, enough that you are ready and willing to change?

How many did you answer yes to? IF more than half or even a few, what do you need to change?

SO how do you change? 

1. Shut your mouth. 🙂 Close your mouth, that is writing it nicely.  🙂
2. Listen to what is ticking you off.  Is there something brewing in you?
3. Slow down. Listen to your body.
4. Look at the people you are hurting with your tongue, do you like that result?
5. Pray, while you close your mouth and listen.
6. Then find one thing positive to say, starve out the criticalness.
7. Speak one good thing.
8. Then leave the room.
9. Breathe and figure out why you wanted to pounce with criticalness?
10. Repeat…

How do I shift away from speaking with a razor sharp tongue of criticalness?

Awareness, is the first step in the right direction. If criticalness is a stronghold in your life, then you must be willing to work on it and to die from its grasp in your life, if you want to live a life of kindness and truth and freedom.

Here are a few more encouragements of Truth.

1. We are to grow up – “but speaking the truth in love,  we are to grow up in all aspects into Him who is the head, that is, Christ, ” (Ephesians 4:15 NASB).
2. (Proverbs 3:3 NASB) .. “Do not let kindness and truth leave you; Bind them around your neck, write them on the tablet of your heart.” 

I love that verse and I picture bunk beds in my head and in one sleeps KINDNESS and in the other bed sleeps TRUTH and when I open my mouth these best be included in my words. And the book of James chapters 3 and 4 have a lot to say about the power of the tongue.

A friend told me years back, that the tongue is like a dipstick to our heart. So let me ask you, do you like what is coming up and out from your heart? And if not, are you ready to learn to change and experience freedom to express the good?

Here are a few options:

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