Monday... Here are four important words for today.

Let me ask you, do you strive to widen your vocabulary each day? Let me give you four words to dwell on and meditate on today that can make a difference for tomorrow. Here they are: careful planning, hurry and scurry. These are words that I need reinforced in my mind today.

Proverbs 21:5 (MSG) says, "Careful planning puts you ahead in the long run; hurry and scurry puts you further behind." Now that may not make sense but it is very wise.

I don't know where I'm going but I'm ahead of schedule. Now that doesn't make sense but that is the way that so many people live. They are always, always in a hurry.

This verse in the New Living Translation says, "Good planning and hard work lead to prosperity, but hasty shortcuts lead to poverty." The NIRV says, "The plans of people who work hard succeed. You can be just as sure that those in a hurry will become poor."

We can be in such a hurry that we can't even see the signs along the road that are there to protect us and to guide us.

Verse 29 (NLT) says, "The wicked bluff their way through, but the virtuous think before they act."

Verse 11 (MSG), "Simpletons only learn the hard way, but the wise learn by listening." But learning by listening takes time. Yes it does. "Careful planning puts you ahead in the long run."

And then verse 21 (NIV), "Whoever pursues righteousness and love finds life, prosperity and honor."

Again verse 5 but in the Amplified Bible, "The plans of the diligent lead surely to abundance and advantages, but everyone who acts in haste comes surely to poverty."

So let's slow down and and do some careful planning. Yes, yes! #todaysbeginning

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