The Facts Don't Match Up Here

NIV - Pro 21:23 - He who guards his mouth and his
                             tongue keeps himself from calamity.

The facts, how do you get to know the facts?

You may see them, on the evening news, you

may hear them, from the radio or T.V., if

you are just listening, but more often than

you realize, you get your news, or at least

your sense of the news, from someone else.

You hear them tell you what they thought

they heard.  It is a perpetual and much

faster paced rumor mill than at any other

time in history. 

Now that's not a terrible problem if
we are talking about things that
people say that are just moderately important,
but when the depth of the item takes an
another dimension, the rumor spread can
cause absolute devastation, and people
can lose not only money, but something
much more important than money- they
can actually lose their life over something
that someone says. 

An interesting number is the amount
of searching under Google when
asked "number of people who have
been assaulted or killed in the U.S.
over something someone said." 
27,100,000, which is compared to
searches containing the name O'bama;
709,000,000; significantly less.  This
may indicate that there is less interest
or searches for this particular statement
but likely it indicates that people are
more interested in anything President
O'bama is in, versus how much they
fear the chance of attack.  So when
you and I consider our life, we don't
consider statements as being dangerous,
and yet, truth told, a lot of violence
comes from words, and most of us
know this, without news reports to
tell us. 

Proverbs here resembles a familiar
passage to most readers of the Bible,
if that is you, you'll know the book of
James, if that isn't you, we'll quote it
here, but we would suggest to anyone
who wants to read something interesting
to read the book of James, it is intense,
it is powerful and it is wisdom, but
just look how closely these two
statements written thousands of
years apart, are:
Jam 3:5 Even so the tongue is a little member, and boasteth
             geat things. Behold, how great a matter a little fire kindleth!