Keep that tongue in check

So, the whole thing in James where he discusses our tongues being used for evil is hitting me right in the face.

"26If anyone considers himself religious and yet does not keep a tight rein on his tongue, he deceives himself and his religion is worthless. 27 Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world." Bible gateway.

I am definitely the worst on this. I let people hear things that I would never want to hear from my pastor . . . which is the direction that I want to go. Something's gotta give.

Being a teacher of my faith is my goal, but how am I to reach this goal with out the respect of other? As said in James, teachers are held to a higher standard. It's time to live that.

I say all that to bring you this.

"13Now listen, you who say, "Today or tomorrow we will go to this or that city, spend a year there, carry on business and make money." 14Why, you do not even know what will happen tomorrow. What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes. 15Instead, you ought to say, "If it is the Lord's will, we will live and do this or that." 16As it is, you boast and brag. All such boasting is evil. 17Anyone, then, who knows the good he ought to do and doesn't do it, sins."

I say I am going to do this or that, but I must make it happen today.