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Guard Your Words, Preserve Your Life: Wisdom from Proverbs
In this episode, we explore the wisdom of Proverbs on the im… (visit YouTube for more)
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Whoever guards his mouth preserves his life. He who opens wide his lips comes to ruin.
We could probably extend this Proverb also to whoever excessively types or enters anything into social media or on the internet. Whoever guards against that preserves his life.
The writer of Proverbs is clear that we should think before we speak, and even better than that, we should draw on the resources of wisdom available to us in the Word of God, and in our relationship with Him through the working the Holy Spirit within us.
Guarding our mouths, holding back our initial urge to offer our opinion or advice; preserves our life. It prevents us from falling into all sorts of traps. And anybody who’s opened their mouth without first thinking and experienced those consequences knows this to be true. The ultimate consequence of letting our thoughts, our mouths, our passions run free is that it will ruin us.
