Set Aflame week 1-Tame Your Tongue, James 1.1-5a

Have you ever underestimated your own strength? Maybe you thought you could do something but you really couldn’t? This becomes more and more of an issue as you age. You used to be able to do things and never feel them, but as you get older you start to hurt more. Do you think we can underestimate things in our spiritual lives? I think we can—our passage for this morning talks about that. And it addresses one very specific area in our spiritual lives that we might be prone to underestimate—it addresses the power of our tongue . . . The fact of the matter is our tongues have power, yet we are prone to underestimate the force behind our speech. And as we come to our passage today, the Bible writer James addresses this tendency head on. He addresses our words and our speech and seeks to help us not underestimate the power that our tongue has in what we say.‌‌ Never underestimate the power of your tongue