Foolishness of a tongue that runs a mile a minute without thought to how it effects others, or without knowledge. There will always be people you run your mouth with and it matters not because they perhaps your dearest friends or family. Yet in truth should you especially without facts/knowledge. Learning to be still and answering a person without anger is probably one of the most discipline acts a person either masters, or they do not. It is bridling that tongue(James 1) that tells how mastered a person is when their anger is fixing to pour out. God calls us to bridle our tongues and use it wisely. To talk with perverseness is a breach in the spirit, to talk with cursing. Often cursing includes taking God's name in vain, a breaking of God's laws. No one thinks about that curses of the effects of using God's name in vain or even Christ's name in vain. Why is that because they are to busy cursing, to busy being angry and have not slowed down long enough to know what they said. Yet this behavior causes a separation of God's spirit in the heart of the believer. Builds a wall of separation. When one prays to be filled with the Spirit one is asking God not only to remove and purify the soul of any sin, it is asking God to take away that barrier between them and God. Christ blood covers us from all unrighteousness, but it is that continual sanctification process that is so important to the refill and continual filling from the Holy Spirit. Humans are still humans with faults and all. God brings a separation of his Spirit from our hearts though we marked with his seal upon salvation/receiving Christ as Savior and Lord. The sanctification or correction process being an element of hope for the believer, that helps them know God loving concern for how they walk by faith and obedience. Those who scorn or do not wish correction get it ten time worse. It like being taking to that old fashion wood shed behind the barn, that young people hear old timers talk about.

Now the soul that is merry and glad and going in the right path with humbleness of heart and true humility before the Lord is walking in God's grace. If our soul is broken by the sorrow of sin, then we know God is teaching us about sin and speaking to our heart about it. As an early Christian it felt like everyday and sometimes every moment I felt guilty about something or other. Yet it was only when those really "bad things" I did happen, did I really understand that need for repentance. Sometimes it felt easier to try out run God's correction and other times it just easier to repent. I got more in trouble with God then I did my own parents. The point is God wants to mold us and make us into the image of his dear Son. Not for us to save the world but that through him we set also the example of what it means to be saved.

As we learn to walk by God's spirit we learn to put evil thoughts, and ideas away. We are to strive to walk in the ways of the Lord. None of us do this perfect, but when we walk by God's spirit and God's grace, know what is to have gladness in our heart that we learn to follow in the path of righteousness. It better to walk for a short time period with fear and trembling when you know the reward that God is preparing for each of us that believe in Jesus.

If we understand correction is teaching us to follow God's instruction we can dine on the herbs of faith where love is. We can be like a ragin bull in a stall but we gain nothing. A lazy person or person with lack of faith is walking dangerously through the briar patch of life with no care of the thorns and thistles in his path that keep hurting and tearing his life apart. Pride of one's own righteousness can cause one to fall, the story of Job is a good reflection of his own pride, he could not see his own problems of his pride.

God wants to allow the testing of our lives to be use to break down the problems of sin in our life, but also to teach us not that we were necessarily wrong, but our attitude needed adjusting. God wants to do that adjusting in our life to help us be better people of faith and love toward others going through crisis and situations. God wants to remind us to talk to him and seek him for the answers to our problems, to the solution to our daily struggles, and even when we know how the problem probably could be fixed. It is allowing God to be apart of our life and not outside of our decision making. Yet none of us do this well, it is our independent nature to do it just like we want that leaves God out of the picture.

To wrap this up and not be to repetitive the way of Christ is to follow in godly instruction from godly counsel and having strong prayer warriors to pray with you, when you struggling and for you in your journey. You can walk alone like Elijah, but it nice to be in a brotherhood and sisterhood of disciples like the apostles and the women had with Jesus.

Dear Heavenly help us to go forth as followers in Christ, to do his will, following his instruction and teachings through out our day, knowing your corrective hand is upon us. in Jesus precious name, Amen.

Continual Scripture Study: James 1:1-27 KJV
1 James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are scattered abroad, greeting.
2 My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations;
3 Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience.
4 But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing.
5 If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him.
6 But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed.
7 For let not that man think that he shall receive any thing of the Lord.
8 A double minded man is unstable in all his ways.
9 Let the brother of low degree rejoice in that he is exalted:
10 But the rich, in that he is made low: because as the flower of the grass he shall pass away.
11 For the sun is no sooner risen with a burning heat, but it withereth the grass, and the flower thereof falleth, and the grace of the fashion of it perisheth: so also shall the rich man fade away in his ways.
12 Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord hath promised to them that love him.
13 Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man:
14 But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed.
15 Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death.
16 Do not err, my beloved brethren.
17 Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.
18 Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures.
19 Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:
20 For the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God.
21 Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls.
22 But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.
23 For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass:
24 For he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was.
25 But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed.
26 If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man's religion is vain.
27 Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.