Posted on 11/06/2020 5:58:02 AM PST by Pilgrim's Progress
“For the commandment is a lamp; and the law is light; and reproofs of instruction are the way of life" (Proverbs 6:23).
You know, sometimes life is filled with disappointments. Sometimes the Barber does not follow instructions. What are you going to do? Well, in this day and age they go and get a lawyer! Look, why don't you just suck it up, or go to a different barber? Things just didn't go over well all the time.
There is one thing that has always bugged me. I can appreciate somebody sitting down for a meal at a restaurant, and I can understand if you pay big money and the steak comes out crawling after you ordered it medium well. I can understand sending it back. I have sat with Christians at restaurants, and things weren't just perfect, or the service was less than perfect or whatever; and they're willing to leave without paying. They make a scene of the thing. Shut up! I'll just not come back next time; but I am not going to make a scene because they overcooked my meat or the broccoli was overdone. Well, I wasn't going to eat it anyway. I hate broccoli.
Did you know that there are times where it is better to keep our mouths shut? I’m not talking mouth keeping your mouth shut when you're eating, or when you're chewing gum; I'm talking about are you teaching your kids, and kids are you learning, that you don't have to pop off the first thing that comes to your head. Do you know what a good deal of life is? It is biting your tongue. That's true. Everybody, adults and probably teenagers and kids alike have a certain problem with some of this.
Just so you know that there's an expectation about this, and I can't quote you a single verse in the Bible; but I can guarantee you that there's plenty of verses about discretion and prudence. What we need to learn is that there are certain times when it is prudent to shut your mouth. Just because we have something to gripe about, doesn't mean that we have to. And by the way, if you go to a prayer meeting at your church, don’t try to turn the prayer meeting into a gripe session. God doesn’t like that. Did you know that sometimes people will turn a prayer meeting into a sanctified gossip section? Be careful.
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