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Tools of a Tongue Tamer
The Stool
Tasty Treats
Illustration: THE FEARLESS LION TAMER
John 20:4-
A 1st grader stood in front of his classroom to make a speech about "What I want to be when I grow up."
He said, "I'm going to be a lion tamer and have lots of fierce lions.
I'll walk into the cage and they will roar."
He paused for a moment, thinking through what he had just said and then added, "But of course, I'll have my daddy with me."
Lion Tamers: Lion taming and training techniques have evolved over the years.
The first known lion tamer, Henri Martin, earned the trust of his big cats by introducing himself to them slowly over time.
At first, he interacted with his tiger through the bars of a cage, earning himself a few scratches for his trouble.
Then, he entered the tiger's cage with bars separating his space from the tiger's.
Introducing first his head, then his shoulders through the bars, he eventually worked his entire body into the cage with tiger.
At this point, the tiger was used to Martin's presence.
This style went out of fashion after Isaac Van Amburgh entered the scene.
He used violent methods to control his big cats.
When Clyde Beatty made his debut about a century later, he used a whip, a gun and a chair to command his cats.
You might be wondering why a chair would intimidate an animal as powerful as a lion.
It's not that the lion is afraid of the chair -- it's that the lion is confused by the chair [source: Morris].
Cats are single-minded, and the points of the chair's four legs bobbing around confuse the lion enough that it loses its train of thought.
Casually put, the chair distracts the lion from wanting to claw the lion tamer's face off.
Courage - It takes courage to tackle something that has been with you for a long time.
Whether it is a negative tongue, a lying tongue, a gossiping tongue or simply a tongue that speaks death, it takes courage to get into the ring and DO something about it.
Preparedness - Know your enemey.
It is imporant to have a firm understanding of how the tongue has been used in the past and your natural inclination to use it for something unhealthy.
The Whip
Some animal trainers do use whips -- but only to distinguish their personal space from the lion's
The lion tamer uses the threat of force and if he actually uses it, he has lost.
If he hits the lion with the whip and the lion figures out it doesn’t hurt that much, he’ll eat him.
The Stool
It’s the stool.
When the lion tamer lifts the stool to face his snarling companions, the lions see all four stool legs and don’t know which one to focus on.
As a result, they stand frozen, enabling the tamer to keep them at bay.
The four legs, but why?
Because as far as the lion is concerned the four legs are four different threats he doesn’t know how (or what) to react to so he becomes overwhelmed and docile.
If you think of the lion as a computer, then the processor has frozen there is no communication and no action is taken.
Tasty Treats
Rewarding good behavior.
Bible Verses:
So also the tongue is a small part of the body, and yet it boasts of great things See how great a forest is set aflame by such a small fire!
The tongue is humanly untamable…
Religious means “serving God”.
Bridle his tongue.
If someone thinks he is serving God, yet doesn’t tame the tongue, that religion is useless.
Our responsibility is to BRIDLE.
God’s responsibility is to TAME it.
“The soul is humanly unsavable” - Only God can do it.
We must respond to the grace of God.
We have a responsibility.
When you put a bridle on a wild horse, is that horse tamed immediately.
No.
It takes a while.
If I want to be slow to anger… I must learn how to be slow to speak.
WAIT - “Why am I talking”.
It is my responsibility to guard my mouth and to bridle my words.
"Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt."
- Abraham Lincoln
Have you ever finished someone else’s sentences.
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