Let us always be swift to hear “the word of truth” (James 1:18); to “receive with meekness the implanted word, which is able to save your souls” (1:21). Let us be swift to hear and swift to do what God says (1:22). For if we will continue in it and are a doer of the work, “this one will be blessed in what he does” (1:25). But let us also be swift to hear one another, rather than always in a hurry to speak to make our point and to be heard. Let us be slow to speak on social media as well. And let us be slow to wrath in our homes, with our brethren, with our fellow man, as well as in our use of social media. Always remembering that our wrath will never be found well pleasing or acceptable in the sight of God. May God help each one of us to possess the resolve and self-control to “be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath.”