The Power of Navigation

James 3:3-8
"Indeed, we put bits in horses' mouths that they may obey us, and we turn their whole body. Look also at ships: although they are so large and are driven by fierce winds, they are turned by a very small rudder wherever the pilot desires. Even so the tongue is a little member and boasts great things. See how great a forest fire kindles! And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity. The tongue is so set among our members that it defiles the whole body, and sets on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire by hell. For every kind of beast and bird, of reptile and creature of the sea, is tamed and has been tamed by mankind. But no man can tame the tongue."


The Bible compares the tongue to a rudder of a ship and to the bit in the mouth of a horse. Though relatively small, all three have tremendous power. A rudder turns a ship, a bit turns a horse, and our tongues turn our lives in the direction we will go. Where you go today depends on what you say today.