Myspace is twittering all over my Facebook

Psalms 141 says, "Treat my prayer as sweet incense rising; my raised hands are my evening prayers. Post a guard at my mouth, God, set a watch at the door of my lips."

The mouth/tongue is a deadly thing. It can trip us up at the most inopportune time. It can hurt us more than anything I know. Matthew tells us, "What goes into a man's mouth does not make him 'unclean,' but what comes out of his mouth, that is what makes him 'unclean.' " (Matthew 15:11) And James says of the tongue, "⁷People can tame all kinds of animals, birds, reptiles, and fish, ⁸ but no one can tame the tongue. It is restless and evil, full of deadly poison. ⁹ Sometimes it praises our Lord and Father, and sometimes it curses those who have been made in the image of God."

We read in Proverbs, "death and life are in the power of the tongue, and they who indulge in it shall eat the fruit of it [for death or life]."

Those of us who understand how powerful our words can be understand how conversely wonderful our words can be, as well. In a world of TMZ reporting (instantaneous and live recording hitting the internet in seconds), what we say, not how we say it, is all important. There is no correcting our mistakes; there is only showing our mistakes -- over and over and over. It is a lesson many are learning the very, very hard way.

George Herbert understood this more than a century ago. He said, “Better the feet slip then the tongue.”  He understood these things despite the time in which he lived. What would he have understood about Facebook?"

Our world has changed. If you don't Facebook, Myspace or Twitter, you don't recruit well in college football, or keep up with the police docket in professional football or simply know what your buddies are doing in high school football.

You need to keep up with where your money is because your mouth has already travelled there.