Firestarter“Even so the tongue is a little member and boasts great things. See how great a forest a little fire kindles! And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity. The tongue is so set among our members that it defiles the whole body, and sets on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire by hell.” (James 3:5-6) In the 1984 movie Firestarter based on the Stephen King novel, Drew Barrymore is a girl born to telekinetic parents with pyrokinetic abilities, that is, she can start fires at will. Although the tongue can bring so much good and blessing, it can also bring curses as if they were from the pit of hell. Like a wildfire the words spread becoming completely out of control and developing into something that takes on a life of its own. The words we speak may be added
to or subtracted from morphing into something entirely different from
what we intended to say. Once those words leave our mouths and have
been heard by others there is no way to take them back. God’s Word
in regard to the tongue is “let every man be swift to hear, slow
to speak, slow to wrath; for the wrath of man does not produce the righteousness
of God.” (James 1:19-20) Copyright © 2003 Eddy Ministries. All rights reserved. Subscribe/Unsubscribe: eddyn@earthlink.net
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