Tag Archives: way of righteousness

Reading:
Proverbs 17:1-10

I’m not very open to correction. 🙁

I tend to resist it.

I can explain and defend myself.

I can see the messenger’s shortcomings. (At least I no longer fight fire with fire.)

But I’m working to have heart that’s open and tender to rebuke and reproof and correction. Like this:

“A reproof entereth more into a wise man than an hundred stripes into a fool” (10).

[The fining pot is for silver, and the furnace for gold: but the LORD trieth the hearts (Proverbs 17:3)]
from Proverbs 17:3

A little bit more from Proverbs 17: Dreaming…

Reading:
Proverbs 15:23-33

The right words at the right time are such a blessing, both to the speaker and to the hearer.

What a thrill to know I have given the right answer or the right advice or the right perspective!

Like this:

“A man hath joy by the answer of his mouth: and a word spoken in due season, how good is it!” (23).

How to achieve that?

Here’s part of the answer:

“The heart of the righteous studieth to answer: but the mouth of the wicked poureth out evil things” (28).

To give the right answer, study on it before answering.

To give the right answer, be righteous.

[He that refuseth instruction despiseth his own soul (Proverbs 15:32)]
from Proverbs 15:32

A little bit more from Proverbs 15: Among the Wise

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