As I began to prepare this message, I was reminded of how as a child I would hear someone curse, and then someone nearby ask: “Do you kiss your mother with that mouth?” While posed as a question, it was a way of telling someone that their cursing was not any more welcome to them than it would be by their own mother. I was reminded of that because as we move on in our God Has An App For That worship series, we come to the spiritual app Dudley Rutherford titles “Curb Your Profanity.” As we begin to ponder this spiritual app I want to state, however, that God wants to do more through it than just help us stop cursing.
This is because the word “profane” (from which we get the word ‘profanity’) applies to more than just foul language. The word “profane” applies to all that “is not sacred” and all that is “not respectful,” and instead is “abusive” or “degrading.” This means that “Curb Your Profanity” is a spiritual app that is meant by God to help us see that it is His will that we should be “perfect” and “never at fault,” keeping our “whole body” (including our tongue) “in check.” This is especially important, James says, because the tongue can be a “a world of evil among the parts of the body.”