Ivet Graham-Morgan
The Tongue: An Evil Master…A Good Servant —wholly inspired by a family’s misery brought on by the tumor called gossip and later observations at a church considered ‘Pentecostal-based’. The author focused on the source of the cancer and the antidote, found in the Word of God.
It is the author’s hope that everyone who reads this book will discern the real enemy of mankind and seek to silence him in their own lives instead of allowing him to use them to cause dissension in the life of their fellow man.
The author of this book, has no theological training—just an average individual who has a personal relationship with God. The author set out to write this book only after the first-hand experience of one family’s misery which started with a single poisonous tongue and spread like a wildfire consuming everything in its path.
The family in question had a stable life until a malicious tumor called gossip destroyed their lives, created disintegration within the family and robbed them of financial stability. Refusing to give up, they tried to redeem themselves. As project after project failed, broken and hopeless, the victim cried out to God. Finding consolation in His Word the victim continued to seek Him earnestly through prayer and fasting and the road map, the Holy Bible. Here began the family’s journey to restoration but as I thought of the deep wounds and the pain inflicted on them I realized that all this suffering could have been avoided if only that ungodly tongue was tamed by the Word of God—I felt compelled to write this book.
Although the tongue was never meant to be used unconstructively, since the fall of mankind it has been used as a destructive weapon in every generation—ruthlessly wounding, maiming, and plundering the unsuspecting victim. The tongue like every other member of our body was made by God for a specific purpose and was intended to be used in the approved manner. Apart from the uses as mentioned above, the tongue should be used in worshipping God, the Creator. Colossians 1:16-17 states:
“For by Him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in the earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by Him, and for Him: And he is before all things, and by him all things consist.”
James describes the tongue as an unruly evil, full of deadly poison. He further declares that no man can tame the tongue. James has painted an accurate picture of an ungodly tongue—a tongue being manipulated as a weapon of Satan, a flesh-driven tongue—being in subjection to the flesh rather than the spirit. The tongue can only be tamed by God who through his mercy and goodness to a fallen people sent his Son, Jesus Christ, to redeem us through his saving grace at the cross of Calvary.
