According to the site Crazy Hot Seeds, the top 3 hottest peppers in the world for 2016 are the Carolina Reaper, the hottest, the Trinidad Moruga Scorpion ranking second and the third is 7 Pot Douglah. In recent years, restaurants are offering daring individuals a free meal or shirt for eating spicy dishes or peppers. Some even offer a wall of fame with victorious eaters having their pictures and or names engraved on plaques hanging on restaurant walls. Unfortunately, the losers are left with mouths on fire or a worst case scenario for a cook from London, losing his hearing after eating the world’s spiciest noodles.
With their mouths the godless destroy their neighbors, but through knowledge the righteous escape, Proverbs 11:9.
King Solomon refers to a different kind of mouths on fire in the Bible. Whether Solomon engaged in people watching or received this revelation from God, individuals who like to talk a lot can ruin the lives of their neighbors. Like a snake, tongues can spit venom upon those whom they dislike, lashing out with words instead of fangs. While the childhood saying, “sticks and stones will break my bones, but names will never hurt me” seems nice, but its untrue. Deep inside human souls, scars and wounds remain long after words have been spoken.
The tongue also is a fire, a world of evil among the parts of the body. It corrupts the whole body, sets the whole course of one’s life on fire, and is itself set on fire by hell, James 3:6.
Jesus’ younger brother also recognized that words are like a mouth set on fire. When accompanied by anger, words can be like daggers, stabbing friends in the back in the form of gossip. Before you reach this point, its vital to find the knowledge to escape the temptation to hurt those you love with a poor choice of vocabulary. Although you can’t escape mouths of fire, you can control what comes out of your own mouth. May the words of the Bible give you direction, insight and wisdom to tame mouths of fire.
by Jay Mankus
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