Fire Extinguisher

Sulphurous burning
You are at an event with hundreds of people. There is the din of noise, many voices echoing, but you cannot make out what individuals are saying; it is a steady roar and rumble. 

There are creatures in your midst, dark shadows that cannot be seen with the naked eye. With large ears, they weave in and out of the crowd gathered there, slipping silently to stand between two, attuned to the couple in conversation. With keen hearing, they listen for just the right sound, an off key murmur, a discordant pitch. Once they have heard a perfectly screechy tone, they whisper to nearby cohorts with outsized mouths, instructing them to repeat what they have heard to the group in the corner. Soon enough, the game of telephone has begun, and like wild fire, dissension, divisions, divisiveness spreads throughout the crowd, flames catching and taking hold of tongues that fuel the sulphurous burning.

Creatures fan the flames
The creatures weave in and out, listening for any disruptors, anyone who may attempt to put out the fire; anyone who may want to calm the flames and cool the room with disgusting words of peace. The creatures whispering intensifies, as they fan the flame, adding a nasty twig word here, a thin vile thought log there. Keeping this fire burning requires constant effort, and their prey must be held in check and stoked continually.

Putting out the fire
There are some people in the room that can see the creatures, hear their whispers and hissing instructions. They can feel the presence and heat of fire. Cool washes over them as they squint their eyes, peering through the smoke and dancing flames. 

These are the fire extinguishers, the ones that calmly look about and know just what to do, where to go for water to choke and suffocate the flames. They murmur too, words that cannot be distinguished from the noisy crowd as they stand amongst, in and a part of the gathering. 

Others stand out front. With loud, booming voices that firehose like, expel flame quenching water, spraying the crowd, putting out the wild fire that threatens to destroy. 

Patches of burning continue. The extinguishers gain power and strength, and the firehose people turn up the pressure. Awake and alerted to the present danger, many in the crowd feel heat under their feet and begin to stomp, snuffing out the fiery licks that threaten to burn from the ground up. There remains some smouldering as smoke ascends. Many in the crowd were doused directly by the firehose people and many could feel the relief from heat that emanated from the fire extinguishers.

Walking away, free and unscathed

The crowd disperses and you leave too, unscathed, one of the many that felt the heat, saw the flames, and knew that they could not catch you on fire, would not consume you. You walk away, free

The hearing ear, and the seeing eye, the LORD hath made even both of them (Provers 20:12)