I am using the daily Bible reading schedule from “The Bible.net” for my daily Bible reading.  

Today, I am reading and commenting on James 1-5

Every time I read the Book of James some part of it speaks to me.  Everyone knows that James puts an emphasis on the fact that faith will result in action.  You will act according to what you truly believe.  However, we spend less time seeing the connection James makes between what we say and what we do.  James tells us that we should control what we say.  He links speech we should avoid with anger when he tells us to be quick to listen but slow to speak and to anger.  He does not limit controlling our tongue to when we are angry, but he makes it clear that that is when we are most likely to say things which we should not say.  As important, we often justify saying things we should not say by claiming that we are saying it but would not do it.  However, the more we express angry thoughts, or other thoughts of negative things, the more likely we are to act on those thoughts.