This has been an on-again off-again practice of mine for years and never fails to amaze me when I read something that applies to that day or encounter something for which a Proverb has already provided instruction.
This digest of applicable wisdom comes to us in a beautiful format. Parallelisms and comparisons that make our understanding fruitful.
I love the way a complex thought is reduced to just a line or two that is easily understood and easily transferred but, with meditation, unfolds into essential guidance for life.
We should learn to speak so succinctly and powerfully.
Today, for ME, it's...
"In the multitude of words sin is not lacking,
But he who restrains his lips is wise" (10:19).
But he who restrains his lips is wise" (10:19).
Yowser. Chew on that.
Read through today's chapter (Proverbs 10) and see what it provides as YOUR bite-sized nutrition-packed portion.
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