PROFITING FROM PROVERBS

“The words of a talebearer are as wounds, and they go down into the innermost parts of the belly. Burning lips and a wicked heart are like a potsherd covered with silver dross” (Proverbs 26:22-23).

“The words of a talebearer are as wounds,” they’ll wound you. Wounds of the soul, and spirit, and they go deep down into the belly.

“The words of a talebearer are as wounds,” it would be better if they just walked up to you and hit you because the pain of words can last a lot longer. I wish sometimes they just walk up and hit me and then that’ll be the end of it, but that isn’t the end of it when it gets to gossiping. It just goes on and on and on and then two years later somebody walks up and says, “Hey, I heard this about you.”

“The words of a talebearer are as wounds, and they go down into the innermost parts of the belly.” That’s down to the inside of a man, to his spirit and his soul.

Dross is the scum of the silver. That’s what has been scraped off the top, it is the impurities of the silver. And burning lips and a wicked heart are like that. They’re ugly.

They are ugly in their reason, for they come out of the wicked heart. That’s the reason that they do it. They are wicked. They are saying things for self-gain or revenge.

They are ugly in their rhetoric, burning lips. As words that burn, words that produce wounds as in verse 22, as coals, as throwing wood on the fire in verse 20.

And they are ugly in their result, dross. It just brings about scum. It brings about ugliness. It doesn't produce anything good.

Daily Bible study is necessary if we are going to begin our day with the right attitude and the right spiritual diet. Proverbs has 31 chapters, and most months have 31 days, so let's read a chapter of Proverbs a day and see what God might have for us. As the Lord leads, share with us what God has shown you in a special way and by His grace let us build up a devotional repository. Let's keep our knives and forks handy for some daily bread! Ideally, a chapter or two of Proverbs will fit in nicely with a good plan of reading our Bibles through each year.

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