STUFF: Toothpaste Message Highlights

Tonight, we are kicking off a new series called STUFF. 

We’re going to take a look at some common, household stuff and see what we can learn from it. To get us started, we are going to see what we can learn about life from my arch-enemy…THE TOOTHPASTE TUBE!

 Toothbrush Illustration:  

Mouths are like a toothpaste tube

What comes out can never be put back in

If you’ve ever tried to put toothpaste back in the tube, you find out pretty quickly that it’s impossible. The same is true with our words…once they are out, they can’t be taken back.

• Saying words you shouldn’t
• making promises you can’t keep
• exaggerating
• bragging
• lying
• gossiping
• etc.

 Once the toothpaste is out…our words are out...then you’ll have to clean up the mess.

Same is true with our words….and cleaning up the mess our mouths make is always more work than controlling our mouths to start with 

• James 1:19
• Proverbs 15:1
• Matthew 5:37

 Thought for the Week

Does my MOUTH make a MESS?