Skip to main content

Monday... It can be so easy to do.


Monday... It can be so easy to do. It really can be.

Something happens and we can be so quick to speak up and get angry. I have my rights. And we have our pride too!

But the writer of Proverbs 29:11 (NLT) puts us in our place. It says, "Fools vent their anger, but the wise quietly hold it back." And that is a such an important "but". There are so many situations in life that we are so quick to speak up and to get angry. But what if we would quietly hold it back. Yes, there may be an injustice in there but we really do need to stop and think and evaluate the whole situation. 

I had something happen at the coffee shop I come to each morning and I felt like speaking up. I wanted to but I didn't. And I'm so glad I didn't because I came upon this Proverb and I'm glad I didn't act like a fool. 

Yes, we do have our rights but in our relationship with our Lord we give them up to him and he gives them back as privileges. We tend to react as if we are lord. 

The Amplified Bible says it this way, "A [shortsighted] fool always loses his temper and displays his anger, but a wise man [uses self-control and] holds it back." I don't want to be a fool or act like a fool but our pride gets in the way, doesn't it? 

After I sat down in another seat, I was ashamed of my initial feeling and so glad that I hadn't said anything. 

You see the big room that I have sat in at a certain table for over 400 times was being arraigned for primary voting. You know there is something called a Presidential election and they had a right to do what they were doing in the big room. And by being quiet I realized what was happening. We really do make a fool out of ourselves. We really do.

Think of the last fight you had at home. What would have happened if we had quietly held our self back?

Again, "Fools vent their anger, but the wise quietly hold it back." That is such a very good Proverb, isn't it?  Let's strive to not let our pride take over and get in our way. Yes, yes! #todaysbeginning


Labels:

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Friday... We have this hope of expectancy.

Psalm 5:3 (NLT), "Listen to my voice in the morning Lord. Each morning I bring my requests to you and wait expectantly." Friday... We have this hope of expectancy. Now David found a great way to start his day. He says in Psalm 5:1-3 (NLT), "O LORD, hear me as I pray." And that is a great place to start. It really is. Morning sunrise He goes on, "Listen to my cry for help, my King, my God, for I pray to no one but you." And that is so important. We don't try to pump ourselves up by ourself. No, we pray to no one but you, God, my LORD, my King. Now this relationship with God is so, so very important. And then David says, "Listen to my voice in the morning, LORD. Each morning I bring my requests to you" And that is so great. And then he says, "and wait expectantly." Yes, we have this hope of expectancy. We are experienced. That is what a relationship with God and a moment by moment connection does. It makes a difference in our daily wa...
Post a Comment
Read more

Friday... Yes, we can know this to be true.

Psalm 12:6 (NLT), "The Lord's promises are pure, like silver refined in a furnace, purified seven times over." Friday... Yes, we can know this to be true. Maybe this is what you want to say in this day in which we live. Psalm 12:1-2 (MSG) says, "Quick, I need your helping hand! The last decent person just went down, all the friends I depend on gone. Everyone talks in lie language; lies slide off their oily lips. They doubletalk with forked tongues." Do you ever feel that way?" Have you found that to be true? Well David the writer of this Psalm continues and says in verse 6 something to encourage us, to lift us up, to give us hope. Psalm 12:6 (NLT) says, "The Lord's promises are pure, like silver refined in a furnace, purified seven times over." The Message Paraphrase says verses 6-8 this way, "God's words are pure words, pure silver words refined seven times in the fires of his word-kiln, pure on earth as well as in heaven, God, keep ...
Post a Comment
Read more

Friday... So what is it that you really fear?

1 Corinthians 15:57 (NLT), "But thank God! He gives us victory over sin and death through our Lord Jesus Christ." Friday... So what is it that you really fear? Yes, fear holds us back. It seems to take hold of us so that we can't even really enjoy living. Now I have found that one of the best ways to handle fear is to solve the problem of what we fear. Let's say that death is what we really fear. Everyday we wake up afraid to get up because we are afraid to do anything because we are afraid to die. And that is so understandable. Now I have found the solution to fearing death. I have through faith taken care of my fear to die. 1 Corinthians 15:57 (NLT) says, "But thank God! He gives us victory over sin and death through our Lord Jesus Christ." Verse 22 (CEV) says, "Adam brought death to all of us, and Christ will bring life to all of us." Death was not God's plan. Adam was created for an eternal life but he and his partner, Eve blew it and sin a...
Post a Comment
Read more