Every Careless Word

I was reading in the Gospel of Matthew this morning, and this is part of what I read: "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 think "did I really just say that??!!".

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.

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


"Search me, O God, and know my heart; try me and know my anxious thoughts; And see if there be any hurtful way in me, and lead me in the everlasting way."
(Psalm 139:23-24 NASB)