Hold your tounge [ Proverbs 19v 20 ]

Let us consider the next admonition of James 1 v19, /slow to speak/,now it  is not saying slow of speech, rather slow to speak,something like a young child who has not yet spoken. Nor are we being told not to speak,although sometimes silence is golden,there are times we will have to speak up. It is important that we consider carefully what we are going to say,speaking in a rash unthought of way,inconsidered way,can cause all sorts of problems,and can be very destructive, James deals with this in his epistle[3 v2ff].This being slow to speak is something we need to practice all the time,I was recently at a meeting where a brother who is noted for his not being able to control his speech,I longed to challenge his going on, thankfully I didn't. I believe in free speech but not in foolish,uncontroled speech.There used to be a saying, it was,/hold your tounge/,it is a very wise saying,if we practiced that more,less people would be hurt,and we would avoid ,putting our foot in it,some of us have mighty big feet.
A prayer....../ Dear God help us to be slow of speech in Jesus name Amen /