The Perfect Man

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Dec 30, 1902

“If any stumbleth not in word, the same is a perfect man, able to bridle the whole body also.” Thus we have the evidence that the perfect man is the man who can bridle his whole body, and keep it under; and we learn that the tongue is the last portion of the body to be tamed. Indeed, “The tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.” But God can bridle even that if we yield ourselves wholly to him, to be controlled by his Spirit, so that we shall speak only “as the oracles of God;” “for he whom God hath sent speaketh the words of God: for God giveth not the Spirit by measure.” If only the words of God are on our tongue, we may be sure that we shall neither stumble nor cause anybody else to stumble. But remember that this desirable condition cannot be attained by anybody who does not bridle also his whole body.—Selected.