'"Set a guard, O LORD, over my mouth; Keep watch over the door of my lips."' ~ PSALM 141:3 NKJV ~ When the LORD becomes the guard of our mouth the whole man is well governed. GOD has made our lips the door of the mouth, but we cannot keep that door of ourselves, therefore do we entreat the LORD to take the rule of it. O that the LORD would both open and shut our lips, for we can do neither the one nor the other aright if left to ourselves. In times of persecution by ungodly men we are peculiarly liable to speak hastily, or evasively, and therefore we should be specially anxious to be preserved in that direction from every form of sin. How condescending is the LORD! We are ennobled by being door keepers for him, and yet he deigns to be a door keeper for us. ~ Charles H. Spurgeon