Daily Huddle - Oct 13, 2020 Three Things To Say

Love you all, praying for you, 

Have you ever noticed, there are really three things you can say.  Things to yourself, things to God, and things to others.  It's always wise to be careful what you say, and to be careful what you say, you need to be careful what you hear.  Because what you hear you tend to say.  Unless you discern what you hear, you will just repeat it.  It's even better to say what is right.  If that is your practice, than saying something else sounds strange.  Proverbs 13:1 - A wise son heeds his father's instruction, but a mocker does not listen to rebuke.  What makes a son wise?  Listening and applying what His Father teaches him.  First listening, then obeying.  Why does a son heed his father's instruction?  One he chooses to listen to His Father, and his Father's counsel over everyone else.  He doesn't hold with equal value  something someone else says.  Why does He heed?  Because he values his Father's instruction, because He values His Father.  What makes a mocker? - one who doesn't listen to rebuke.  Why does he get rebuke? because He doesn't follow instruction. Why doesn't the mocker follow instruction? because he values things that other people say, more than he values what his father says.  If you don't heed instruction, neither will you heed warning, or rebuke.  Verse 3 - He who guards his lips guards his life, but he who speaks rashly will come to ruin.  One always assumes this verse is about talking to others.  But it doesn't say that.  It's first about talking to you, what you say to yourself.  What is speaking rashly?  Repeating something that has no basis in truth. Rashly - hastily, and without due deliberation.  Quick to speak something that is not true or not wise, unsubstantiated, often based on feeling or emotion, rather than fact and proof.  If you speak rashly to someone else, you may come to ruin, they may get upset and ruin you.  But far more often people are ruined by what they say to themselves.  The best way to guard your lips is to employ them with good.  If you speak God's Word, it will train your lips in what is right.  When speaking to yourself - speak faith, when speaking to God - speak praise, when speaking to others - speak kindness.  Praying that you will always be diligent in what is due.  That is due diligence. That you won't repeat things you hear, that everybody says or believes, without seeking truth first.  New information?  Is It True?  Where is the evidence?  What's in it for them?  What does God say?  Praying that your mouth will always build, faith for yourself, praise for God, and kindness for others.  That you will guard your lips with God's Word - so you will never come to ruin, you will come to reward.  

Love you all, 
​dad