Every Careless Word

I've been reading in the Gospel of Matthew lately.  This is part of what I read this morning......"Every careless word that people speak, they shall give an accounting for it in the day of judgment."  That's Jesus speaking.  Every careless word.  Oh my.  Every careless word.  Not some careless words.  Not just the words I meant to say.  But every careless word.  Including the ones that just slipped out of my mouth.  The ones that caused me then to say...."did I really just say that??!!"

And as I have been thinking about that verse, I wonder how many careless words I have spoken already today. 

Or how many careless words have I spoken this week?

Or this month?

And I realize that I can't even begin to keep up!  How sad that is.....

Every careless word.......that's a lot of words......and that's something to think about.

Maybe that's one of the reasons we were made with two ears and only one mouth!

"But I tell you that every careless word that people speak, they shall give an accounting for it in the day of judgment.  (Matthew 12:36 NASB)