Yesterday I sat in a dental chair for two hours—no small task for me. I never sit that long in one place unless I fall asleep watching a baseball game. Seven fillings later I left the dentist’s office with two severely swollen lips and a severely diminished checking account. My lips stayed swollen and numb for several hours. When I tried to drink juice from a glass, the contents poured from my mouth to the kitchen table. I tried using a straw, but I could not siphon the juice up the straw. Any attempt to speak resulted in malformed words; I sounded like a drunk.
I learned how essential lips are to functions most of us take for granted.
The Bible teaches us to use our lips wisely to—
• disperse knowledge (Prov. 15:7);
• continuously offer the sacrifice of praise (Heb. 13:15);
• greatly rejoice (Ps. 71:23);
If we use our lips to do these things today, the Lord will be honored, we will have great joy, and others will be blessed.
