We choke on that little fly, cough and spit trying to get it out. Riding with our mouths closed is not always easy and it seems the faster we go, the more air we need and the more our mouths are open. We seem to catch a lot of flies that way.

We sometimes speak in great haste without thinking clearly about what we want to say. The more we speak and the more hastily our words are formed, the more likely it is that we will spit things out that we have not thought through. Just as we will not catch flies if we ride with our mouth closed, we too should open our mouths more carefully in conversation and we will not choke on our words (James 1:19).