Read Proverbs 26:23 Solomon uses a very clear word picture in our verse for today. Burning lips mean someone who talks about someone else. A talebearer or a contentious person has burning lips. And a wicked heart goes right along with the burning lips. So what are these two evil things like? Solomon says that they are like a piece of a pot that has been shattered. And then it is covered with the nasty scrapings off of the top of a pot of molten silver. When silver is heated up until it is a hot liquid, the impurities float up to the top. Then the scum is scraped off with something - here it is a piece of a broken pot. The scum cools and turns back to a solid. The potsherd is useless and the silver scum that is stuck onto it is useless too. What a nasty thing. That is how nasty that God sees gossiping lips and a wicked heart. God thinks that both of them are as nasty as the worthless piece from a broken pot that has silver scum stuck on it. I want God to be pleased with me, don't you? Don't have problem lips or a wicked heart. Be pleasing to the Lord!
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