taming the tongue...

so i am writing a sermon on taming the tongue, and let me tell you it is kind o feye opening
i wish that i was better at this idea of taming my tongue. i dont think that i do a bad job, and its not like i go around swearing and badmouthing everyone. i just think there are sometimes that it seems like we as adults can fall into the same thing that some of our students can do. now the question would be for me, is whether or not we are being gossipy or wrong about just wanting to know about what is going on with our students lives?
i dont know what to think, because not only do i have friends in the youth ministry, but i feel like if i know what is going on in their lives, i am able to help them a little more, and hopefully give them a little more guidance if i know what they are going through.
as i write this sermon more and more, and think about it more and more, i want to be able to get across that i am not perfect and i do hold myself back, but what we all need to do is realzie that we need to watch our mouths and watch how we communicate. we are christians, and what is the point of a new student coming to youth group, and feeling like they are being judged, and being ridiculed, before anyone even knows them. in James 4 it even says, "who are you to judge your neighbor," i think that is a great question. where do we come off with the right to judge others, when the only real judge is God himself and he is going judge us for how we have lived our life.
taming the tongue.... its a hard thing to do sometimes, but it is necessary, for all of us to live by.