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When the word, not the world, becomes the majority of your week, your life will start to change.

For that reason, our prayer is that God will speak to you through today's devotional.

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Hey, what is up? Great to have you with us on the daily drive. You might actually be driving.

Many of you tell us that you listen on the way to work or on the

way to school, or you might be taking a walk, you might be working out, you might be hugging a mug

of coffee like I am right now. Wherever you are, thanks for hanging with us for a few minutes today.

My name is Bro, and we've been diving into the book of James together for a few weeks now.

You can find it toward the back of the New Testament

section of the Bible. It's a really, really cool letter written by James, who was the brother,

or more accurately half-brother of Jesus. He grew up not believing in his older brother,

actually poked fun at him, thought he was kind of out there. But after the resurrection comes,

he comes to fully embrace Jesus as the son of God and goes on to become one of the leaders in the early church.

And he writes this letter to encourage all these brand new followers of Jesus and us to hang in there through the tough times that they were going through.

And to let those hard things refine our character and develop an authentic faith inside of us.

Now, we're still in chapter three where he talks a bunch about controlling our tongue

instead of it controlling us, and we talked yesterday out Jesus told us that the mouth speaks

what the heart is full of, so it's not actually a tongue problem after all. It's a heart problem.

The heart of the matter is the heart. So let me go back to a few verses we saw yesterday, and we'll use them

as kind of a, like an on-ramp to get to where we're going today. Verse nine, sometimes our tongue

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