Wisdom is learning when to keep your mouth shut, when to open. When to say, what to say, how to say. Wisdom is discerning God's will, God's way, God's time. Ptr. Peter Tan-Chi.
The tongue is connected to the heart. The heart is sinful, and the tongue is the expression of the heart.
What you say will set the direction, the trajectory of our life. That's how powerful it is. It is not something immaterial, it is crucial. We need to tame it. Peter Tan-Chi
6 For promotion cometh neither from the east, nor from the west, nor from the south.
7 But God is the judge: he putteth down one, and setteth up another. _ Psalm 75:6-7
An idol can be a romantic relationship, peer approval, competence and skill, secure and comfortable circumstances, your beauty or your brains, a great political or social cause, your morality and virtue, or even success in Christian ministry. _ Timothy Keller
"An idol is anything so central and essential to your life that, should you lose it, your life would feel hardly worth living... It can be family and children, or career and making money, or achievement and critical acclaim, or saving "face" and social standing. -Timothy Keller