Nip It

"Nip it, nip it, nip it." Oh my goodness I used to love Barney Fife on the Andy Griffith Show. Don Knox played that part perfectly and I don't know if anyone else could have done it any better! Barney and that one bullet always cracked me up and his inability to keep his mouth shut always resonated with me. I'm one of those people with an uncontrollable mouth.

As I was listening to the local Christian radio station this morning the same thing happened! A commercial was aired that absolutely cracked the DJs up and as they were laughing one of them began to tell his own similar story when all of a sudden the audio was immediately shut off and a song started playing. I guess the boss said "nip it, nip it, nip it!"

How nice would it be if we had someone to start playing a song just at the same time that we were about to say something stupid?! You know, alot of times I honestly do not mean anything hurtful or harmful by my words but as soon as they come out of my mouth I realize what I have said/done and I can't "hoover" back in fast enough.

And, in the same turn, I wish what would flow out of my mouth would be nothing but Jesus! I wonder why that is? Why is it so easy to rattle off nonsense but when you discuss Jesus we tend to stop and think about what we are going to say? Hmmmm....

"Those who control their tongue will have a long life; opening your mouth can ruin everything." Proverbs 13:3 (NLT).