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The Most Dangerous Thing in the World

It's been a while since I posted on this blog, so I decided to start posting again.  This is a short devotional I wrote. From James 3:2-12     Think of the most dangerous creature in the world.  Maybe it’s a tiger, or a bear, or even the deadly box jellyfish.  Just about anything you can think of has somewhere been tamed and locked up in a zoo.  Even though man can tame the deadliest animals, we cannot tame the most dangerous thing in the world: our tongues.  In James 3:2-10, James uses the metaphor of taming animals to apply to the problem of our tongues.      James says that everyone stumbles in what he says.  Everyone sins through speech at one time or another.  Some examples of terrible things that we do with our tongue are discouraging others, not sharing the gospel, and cursing.  Our tongues are so bad that James uses several phrases to describe them: set on fire by hell, boasting, representing a world of evil, and full of deadly poison.  Our tongue is more dangerous than