Greetings Trusting People...the question is...WHOM DO YOU TRUST?
"An arrogant man stirs up strife...but he who TRUSTS IN THE LORD...will prosper. He who TRUSTS IN HIS OWN HEART is a fool...but he who walks wisely will be delivered."
(Pro-Verbs 28:25-26)
We have already seen in the previous Pro-Verbs...that "the fool has said in his own heart, there is no God." So the question for me is...I say there IS a good...but do I TRUST Him?
Whenever I find myself...stirring up strife...by my negative comments, by my resentful attitude, by my downcast countenance (look on my face)....I am manifesting...that I really DON'T trust God. In my selfish arrogance...I am stirring up strife...if not with others...at the least stirring up strife within myself...and I am acting as if I don't believe there is a God...thus acting the fool.
I find that when I don't trust God with (fill in the blank)...I am a fool...and when I trusts in the Lord...I will prosper...beyond what I can do on my own. When I trust in my OWN HEART...I am a fool...but when I walk wisely (trusting in God)...I will be delivered.
So the question remains...WHOM DO I TRUST (a) The Lord (b) my own heart. WHOM DO YOU TRUST?
Love and Trusting Kisses
Rodney "No Strife Stirred" Boyd
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Monday, May 30, 2011
Pro-Verbs 26:4-5 To Answer Or Not To Answer
Greetings friends and neighbors...
Do not answer a fool according to his folly, or you will also be like him. Answer a fool as his folly deserves...that he not be wise in his own eyes." (Pro-Verbs 26:4-5)
Have you ever got into a debate with a fool? Did you win that debate? The Pro-Verbs speaks a lot about fools...contrasting fools and the wise. In Psalms 14:1 and Psalm 53:1 the fool is identified..."The FOOL has said in his heart...there is no God."
This Pro-Verb almost seem contradictory when is says..."Do not answer a fool..." and then says "Answer a fool...".
It seems to mean that when you "stoop down to the fools level"...then you will be like a fool...SO don't be "acting like a fool"...but there will be times when you answer the fool so the table turns and he will not be wise in his own eyes. Sometimes the will be revealed when faced with his own foolishness.
That has happened to me before...as I was saying something that to me seemed reasonable..until someone turned the mirror on me by imitating what I said...and I saw how foolish what I just stated really sounded.
Well...on the level of someone saying within there own heart that there is NO GOD...you can't argue with that logic...but you can share the love of the One who they say does not exist...but you can't mentally debate the issue with them. Choose you battles...and love the unlovable.
Love and Non-Foolish Kisses
Rodney "Answering and Not Answering" Boyd
Do not answer a fool according to his folly, or you will also be like him. Answer a fool as his folly deserves...that he not be wise in his own eyes." (Pro-Verbs 26:4-5)
Have you ever got into a debate with a fool? Did you win that debate? The Pro-Verbs speaks a lot about fools...contrasting fools and the wise. In Psalms 14:1 and Psalm 53:1 the fool is identified..."The FOOL has said in his heart...there is no God."
This Pro-Verb almost seem contradictory when is says..."Do not answer a fool..." and then says "Answer a fool...".
It seems to mean that when you "stoop down to the fools level"...then you will be like a fool...SO don't be "acting like a fool"...but there will be times when you answer the fool so the table turns and he will not be wise in his own eyes. Sometimes the will be revealed when faced with his own foolishness.
That has happened to me before...as I was saying something that to me seemed reasonable..until someone turned the mirror on me by imitating what I said...and I saw how foolish what I just stated really sounded.
Well...on the level of someone saying within there own heart that there is NO GOD...you can't argue with that logic...but you can share the love of the One who they say does not exist...but you can't mentally debate the issue with them. Choose you battles...and love the unlovable.
Love and Non-Foolish Kisses
Rodney "Answering and Not Answering" Boyd
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