When “guarding your mouth with a muzzle” isn’t enough. s30e103 Ps39

You'd think that step one, "guarding your mouth with a muzzle", would be all that the good Lord requires of us.  Nope. There is another step:  watch what happens inside.  

Does the muzzled anger burn a hole in your heart?  I held my peace inside, but got no peace? I ate my words and they ate me up? If so, there is yet another problem to address. Join me if you just might need more than a muzzle. 

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When “guarding your mouth with a muzzle” isn’t enough. s30e103 Ps39

the MOST PRACTICAL psalm you’ll ever read

I will guard my ways. I will guard my mouth with a MUZZLE

Guarding your ways and your mouth sometimes isn’t enough

You can sin with your mouth.  Think about that. You do not have to punch somebody in the face, or steal something to sin.

The #1 sin device you carry with you on the front of your head at all times.

This is a Psalm where David actually does step ONE correctly, but is found wanting. He guards his MOUTH, but doesn’t guard his HEART

39 To the choirmaster: to Jeduthun. A Psalm of David. 

1    I said, “I will guard my ways, 

that I may not sin with my tongue; 

       I will guard my mouth with a muzzle, 

so long as the wicked are in my presence.” .All good so far. But then this happens:

2    I was mute and silent; 

I held my peace to no avail, 

       and my distress grew worse. 

3        My heart became hot within me. 

       As I mused, the fire burned; 

then I spoke with my tongue: .I held my peace inside, but got no peace

.I shut my mouth and shut inside a burning anger

I ate my words, which is good and holy and godly BUT bad things happened inside

    I ate my words and they ate me up ***

You can have a sinful HEART and have a sinless mouth at the same time

The Lord desires MORE than just a mouth that doesn’t become angry

The Lord seeks a HEART that doesn’t burn HOT against the sinners around me.  THEN COMES THE PRAYER THAT BEGINS THE THOUGHT THAT begins the internal rescue:

4    “O Lord, make me know my end

and what is the measure of my days; 

let me know how fleeting I am! 

5    Behold, you have made my days a few handbreadths, 

and my lifetime is as nothing before you. 

       Surely all mankind stands as a mere breath! Selah

6        Surely a man goes about as a shadow! 

       Surely for nothing they are in turmoil; 

man heaps up wealth and does not know who will gather! . 

If you knew that this was your last day, would you using your precious emotional resources on this topic?

If you were measuring your days, would you want this hot heart, to even make the cut?

The wise as for the awareness of fleetingness. LMK how fleeting I am.

Here is the wisdom: I watch my mouth. I too, gotta watch my hot heart.

Anger is not generally applied in a holy way.—at least not on the earth that I inhabit

Though anger can be seemingly all-consuming, I can put it into perspective How? By inquirey: Lord help me here. 

Help me with something that can keep me from sinning against YOU and against humans I am HOT towards

O Lord, make me know my end—so I can put an end to wrong thinking/feel

O Lord, make me know the measure of my days—so I can see whether my HOT HEART measures up before You

LMK how fleeting I am, so as to know what sinful heart whether to commit my fleetingness towards

How do I get there?

    My hope is in you

    I will ask YOU to deliever me from MY transgression

          Lightbulb: I could be doing my half of the equation wrong.

          It is easy to throw stones at the WICKED. Those who obviously are sin

    But that does not give me carte blanch to sin in response.

    There is no free sinning from believers in His family

         Just because the wicked are sinning does not take the reigns off of spiritual conviction, the heavy hand of the LordPsalm 32:4 

4    For day and night your hand was heavy upon me; 

In Conclusion

Psalm 39 is a mercy could be

You can have a sinful HEART and have a sinless mouth at the same time

Watch David do the wrong thing.He realize: I held my peace, but got no peace

Inside

If you often eat your words, and then get eaten up on the inside.

If you have “the gift of anger”, this may just be a lifesaver for you.

Ps 39 can be the MOST PRACTICAL psalm you’ll ever read

Specifically, if you have the well-heeled gift of anger, where the anger burns hot INSIDE, but not often OUTSIDE, then David and God urge that there is more to be done.

He will give you a tool in Ps 39. The tool is one of vision, of perspective, and comparison

Compared to the fleeting, fading days I have, is there a place for my fierce fury, even when it is in opposition to the wicked? David’s answer is NO. Not if it is sinful.

Wait, I stand as a mere breath. I am as fleeting as a shadow here

I am not wasting my precious remaining days burning hot, to no effect, or worse: a hot heart of sin which is primarily against the LORD. 

Compared to the few days I have here, is there a place for the fire of my feelings?David’s answer is NO.