“A double minded man is unstable in all his ways” (James 1:8).

What enters the mind (seat of our intellect), affects the heart (seat of our emotions), and flows from the tongue. It is necessary, therefore, to guard our minds and hearts, because sooner or later, how we think and feel will find its way to our tongue.

“Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity” (Psalm 133:1).

“And I sought for a man among them, that should make up the hedge, and stand in the gap before me for the land, that I should not destroy it: but I found none” (Ezekiel 22:30).

“How much less man, that is a worm? and the son of man, which is a worm?” (Job 25:6).

The Bible uses many different kinds of object lessons to teach spiritual truth, but none stranger than the worm.

“Speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem, and cry unto her, that her warfare is accomplished, that her iniquity is pardoned: for she hath received of the LORD’S hand double for all her sins” (Isaiah 40:2).