Guarding Our Mouths 看守嘴

PSALM 141

诗篇141

3. Set a watch, O Lord, before my mouth; keep the door of my lips.
3耶和华啊，求你禁止我的口，把守我的嘴。

4. Incline not my heart to any evil thing, to practise wicked works with men that work iniquity: and let me not eat of their dainties.

4求你不叫我的心偏向邪恶，以致我和作孽的人同行恶事；也不叫我吃他们的美食。

GUARDING OUR MOUTHS

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Did you know that the average person opens their mouth 700 times a day to speak? (SOME OF US OPEN IT A LOT MORE.) That is amazing.

你知道吗，一个人平均每天开口说话700次?(我们中的一些人打开它的次数更多。)太神奇了。

No wonder David prayed like he did in verse 3. In verses following, David talks about being criticised: if anyone was high profile in Israel it was him. So, when he was criticised, he really felt like answering back. I know I do, and I have, to my shame and regret.

难怪大卫像第3节那样祷告。在接下来的诗句中，大卫谈到被批评:如果有人在以色列备受瞩目，那就是他。所以，当他受到批评时，他真的很想回应。我知道我知道，而且我也做过，这让我感到羞耻和遗憾。

Setting a watch on our mouth is very important. It says in James that the tongue is an unruly evil and a fire: the Great Fire of London started in a small way in a shop, and the Great Fire of Chicago started when a cow kicked over a paraffin (kerosene) lamp; so you can see how much damage an untamed tongue can do! It can and has wrecked relationships, families, and yes, even split churches.

在我们的嘴巴上放一块手表是非常重要的。“雅各书”中说，舌头是一种难以控制的邪恶，是一团火:伦敦的大火是从一家商店里的一个小地方开始的，芝加哥的大火是从一头牛踢翻了一盏石蜡灯开始的;所以你可以看到一个不听话的舌头会造成多大的伤害!它可以并且已经破坏了人际关系，家庭，是的，甚至分裂了教会。

Verse 4 is also a forthright prayer. David not only doesn’t want to say anything wrong, he doesn’t want to do anything wrong either. He wants to walk with God and not to walk with the world; he wants to live in communion with God.  In PSALM 1 he says the same thing: he is concerned that he will not walk in the way of sinners.

第4节也是一个直率的祷告。大卫不仅不想说错话，他也不想做错事。他要与神同行，而不是与世人同行;他要与神相交。在诗篇1中他也说了同样的话:他担心自己不会走罪人的路。

These things are here to caution us –they are to be our constant prayer. If it was good enough for David to pray, surely it should be good enough for us to pray, and indeed to walk in that we wouldn’t do or say anything wrong and hurt our Father.

这些事是要警醒我们的，是我们常要祷告的。如果大卫祷告是件好事，那么我们祷告也是件好事，我们行在祷告中，不做错事，不说话，不伤害我们的天父。

May this be our prayer!

愿这是我们的祈祷!

God bless you