your words set off a chain of events…

james 3.5-6 (niv), consider what a great forest is set on fire by a small spark.  the tongue also is a fire.  it sets the whole course of his life on fire, and is itself set on fire by hell.

on a more personal level of inflammatory statements setting off a chain of events, you come home from work and you’re tired and grumpy and cranky.  you walk in and yell at your wife and she yells at the oldest kid and the oldest kid yells at the baby sister and the baby sister goes out and kicks the dog and the dog goes and bites he cat and the cat comes in and scratches the baby and the baby bites the head off her barbie doll.  wouldn’t it be a whole lot simpler if the husband just bit the head off of the barbie doll himself?  chain reaction, the course of hell.

itself set on fire by hell.  a couple comes in for counseling.  “i said this and then she said that, then i said this…” then what happened?  “all hell broke loose.”  our words can cause “all hell to break loose.”

james says you’ve got to learn to manage your mouth, not only because it can direct you where you go but it can destroy what you have.  you can loose your family, your kids, your career simply by what you say.  it’s like a fire.

just a thought from the front porch..