SAY NO TO SMACK TALK

Smack Talk....?
You may be wondering, what in the world do you mean smack talk... by smack talk I mean saying stuff to put others down to make yourself feel better, or criticzing for any other reason, complaining, judging, crusing, foolish talk, or lying. Your probablly like yeah, yeah we know how it goes we have heard this all before...and sure you might have but it never hurts to go over and over and over this stuff again because it is very very important in James it says "likewise the tounge is a small part of the body, but it makes great boasts. consider what a great forest is set on fire by a small spark". The tounge also is a fire, a world of evil among the parts of the body it corrupts th whole person, sets the whole course of his life on fire. There is so many verses on this smack talk i could go on for days...but ill try to just get to my point and move on.....

Slander....If You Dont Have Anything Nice To Say Dont Say Anything At All
Oh, wow this one is a biggie for girls my age actually just girls in general, girls are always putting people down to make them selfs feel better, or because the have a low self esteem, or just because its pretty much a girls second nature...or so it seems anyways...but in the end it always seems to hurt both people, and plus the bible says its wrong, and well yea....putting others down is completely pointless and very hurtful.....

Let no unwholesome words proceed from your mouth , but only such word that is good for edification according to the need of the moment, so that it will give grace to those who hear.(eph. 4:29)

But now you also put them all aside: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and abusive speech from your mouth.(col.3:8)

Lying
Ok, no one likes a liar thats a give in...I mean its one of the ten comandments for petes sake. anyone with any sense at all knows that lying is wrong..... and even people who arent christians still dont like liars....point taken...I would think so...

Therefore, lay aside falsehood, speak the truth each one of you with his neighbor, for we are all members of one another.....(eph.4:25)

Do not lie to one another, since you laid aside your old self with its evil practices(col.3:9)

Complaining
This is probablly one of the tougher ones to follow..it seems like everywhere we go people are complaining about anything and everything, and there is not one thing to say that makes everyone have this great attitude about life and stop complaining, of you catch yourself complaining a lot you probabally just need a heart check and make sure you are right with God because complaining is one of the many signs of not being right with God.

Do all things with out grumbling or disputeting, so that you will prove yourselfs to be blameless and innocent, childeren of god above reproach in the midst of a crooked and pervesr generation, among you appear as lights to the world(phil. 2:14)

Do not complain, brethern, against one another so that you yourselfs may not be judged, behold the judge is standing right at the door.(james5:9)

Judging
I really dont have to much more to say about judging other people I think I covered it well enough in the say no to emo article and these verses speak for themselves as well. Judging is wrong, so dont do it god is the ultimate judge and end the end what he says goes...I think thats simple enough?

Therefore you have no excuse, everyone of youwho passes judgement, for in that which you judge another, you condemn yourself, for you who judge practcice the smae things(romans 2:1)

Who are you to judge the servant of another? to his own master he stands or falls and he will stand, for the lord is able to make him stand(romans14:4)

But you why do you judge your brother? or you again, why do you regaurd your brother with contempt? for we will all stand before the judgement seat of God(romans 14:10)

Foolish Talk
When they talked about the peverted generation, they werent jokin either, almost everything you say has two meanings now, I mean I can almost gareentee if you say the word pickle around a few 12 year old boys the will start rolling on the floor laughing and you were just talking about a veggie...i mean can it get anymore perverted than that? Same goes for the filthy and silly talk you dont have to go a mile from your door step to hear horrible things coming from peoples mouths, its a crazy world we live in i tell ya....crazy!!!

For there must be no filthiness and silly talk, or coarse jesting, which are not fitting, but rather giving of thanks.(eph.5:4)

Cursing Or Dirty Language
My momma always told me that there was no reason to curse and the people who did just sounded stupid and had very small vocabularies and to me when a guy my age goes around cussing in front of me its like he has no respect for me what so ever, and so I have grown to not tolerate cursing at all and when someone does curse infront of me it almost feels like an insult, I mean not so much in movies or when its like people older than me they just sound plain stupid but when its my peers ....its just like come on you guys get a life!!!

But now you also put them all aside: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and abusive speech from your mouth.(col.3:8)

Be Careful!!!
So, thats pretty much all a no brainer guys and im sure you have heard all of that before, but it one more of those things that was put out in the spot light after I went to emo land and realized I needed a serious heart check and attitude adjustment.....and I had some really hateful things said to me before and I have said some pretty hateful things that really hurt a few people that I really care about. And I'm hear to tell you that words can hurt so be careful and think twice about what comes out of your pie hole!!!