Use your words to uplift | Two Minute Daily Devotional

David Hathaway · Sep 25, 2026 · 2m

In today’s episode, based on the Book of James, chapter 3, we must learn to control our tongue – to only use words that uplift rather than tear down.

We all stumble in many ways. We all fail; not one of us is perfect.

In verse 3, he then puts it in a slightly different way, saying the same thing. He says: "We put bits into the mouths of horses to make them obey us." And it's quite interesting, because that's the only way you can control a horse, really, is by pulling on that bit – that steel thing in its mouth. In doing so, we make the horse obey us and turn.

And then he uses another…