Taming the tongue

James  3:1-12
To brothers, no one can tame the tongue.
Like bits in the mouths of horses turn the whole animal and a small rudder steered large ship direction.
The tongue is a fire, a world of evil among the parts of the body. It corrupts the whole person, sets the whole course of his life on fire,  and is itself set to fire by hell.
With the tongue we praise out Lord and Father, and with it we curse men, who have been made in God's likeness.
Those who want to be teachers in the church must first learn to control their tongues. To master this most uncontrollable and contradictory member of the body is to have perfect self-control.
One spark can light a forest fire. A single word can be just as destructive - a deadly venom.
Why?
The same tongue can bless and it can curse, do good an do untold harm. This inconsistency, James says, is against all the laws of nature.
Through the tongue 'all the evil characteristics of a fallen world... find expression'. It no only pollutes the whole personality, its evil influence continues through the whole course of life.
How?
Careful to speak, think it more deeply before talk. Do not curse others by my tongue!