We have approximately 9,000 Taste Buds in our mouths, each with ten to fifteen receptacles that send messages to the brain saying Yuck or Yum. John Harrison, the official taste tester for a major ice cream company, has developed such a sensitive tongue that his taste buds are insured for one million dollars! (I would like his job!)

All of us need a sensitive tongue, which the Bible compares honey and apples. “Pleasant words are as a honeycomb, sweet to the mind and healing to the body.” Proverbs 16:24. And Proverbs 25:11 adds, “Words spoken at the right time are like gold apples in a silver setting.”

We need to ask God to give us a sensitivity of Speech to speak timely words, sensitive to each situation. “…a time to keep silent and a time to speak,…” Ecclesiastes 3:7 God-honoring speech comes only from a heart that honors God.