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Wednesday... It can be so easy to react before we think.


Proverbs 18:13 (NLT), "Sprouting off before listening to the facts is both shameful and foolish."

Wednesday... It can be so easy to react before we think.

I just read Proverbs 18 and there is so much here that deals with this. Verse 13 (NLT) says "Sprouting off before listening to the facts is both shameful and foolish." It really is.


We come into a situation and someone says something and we lay into them without thinking. There is so much of that in this day in which we live.

Verse 13 in The Amplified Bible says, "He who answers before he hears [the facts] - it is folly and shame to him." It really is.

Verse 15 says, "The mind of the prudent [always] acquires knowledge, and the ear of the wise [always] seeks knowledge." Always, always.

Back to verse 2, "A [close-minded] fool does not delight in understanding, but only in revealing his personal opinions [unwittingly displaying his self-indulgence and his stupidity]."

It is amazing how that when I have blown it the day before God speaks to me clearly when I get into His Word the next day. God knows what He is doing and His Spirit doesn't let us get away from whatever we have done. That is probably why so many don't want to read the Bible in a systematic way but that is how it makes such a difference in our lives.

God wants to be involved in our lives.

Over in Mark 2, Jesus had gone home and he drew a big crowd in this house and these guys had a friend who needed to be healed and they tore the roof and let him down before Jesus and He healed him. Now there were some religious leaders who didn't like what he said and did and they were criticizing Him with others and in verse 7a it says, "Why does this man talk that way?" and then verse 8a says, "Immediately Jesus fully aware [of their hostility] and knowing in His spirit that they were thinking this, said to them." God knows and He wants to deal with our opinions and help us see what He thinks. If they would have been open to Jesus it would have made a major difference in what happened to Jesus. Yes, they were a part of the group that killed Him.

Proverbs 18:2 says in the New Living Translation, "Fools have no interest in understanding; they only want to air their own opinions." I don't want to be a fool.

Verse 4 says, "Wise words are like deep waters; wisdom flows from the wise like a bubbling brook." And verse 15, "Intelligent people are always ready to learn. Their ears are open to knowledge."

Yes, we have a choice. Yes, yes! #todaysbeginning

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