A Few Inches of Flesh – A Big World of Evil

By David Murray - Posted at HeadHeartHand:

Most of us have a world globe somewhere in our homes.

Few of us realize we have one in our mouths as well.

That’s what James says in his second R-Rated picture of the tongue. He calls it “a world of iniquity” (James 3:6).

Just as the world is characterized by vastness and variety, so our tongues have such a variety and vastness of sin in them that they are rightly compared to a world globe. Calvin said that “a slender portion of the flesh contains the whole world of iniquity.” It’s a microcosm of the world’s evil.

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