Foolish

Proverbs 10:14
Wise men store up knowledge,
But with the mouth of the foolish, ruin is at hand.

It seems there is a running theme in this weeks Proverbs. Knowledge, wisdom and our mouths. Today, I read this and think that maybe there are times we shouldn't say whatever it is we want to say.

How true. Sometimes our own best advice can be to the ruin of our friends or ourselves. I recently had an experience where being helpful turned into something distasteful. A group of wonderful godly women that I know were meeting together for prayer. I don't know if you have ever been in a prayer group that went from prayer requests to gossip but it happened to us. And once we got started it consumed us. By the end of our meeting it was hard to even remember what the prayer requests were because we had lost all focus of our purpose.

Instead of holding back all of our knowledge of a situation and just lifting someone in prayer, we told everything. I was so disappointed afterwards. I know we are better than that but lost our perspective. My heart still aches for those that we talked about.

I can't change the part I played in that situation. I can change what happens next time.

Heavenly Father~ Praise you for the changing of the seasons and the way the warm spring air has started to change the flowers and the trees. You know my heart Lord and that I wish to honor you in my life. Show me Lord when I become foolish with my words. Show me when I should be storing knowledge. Lord, I desire to be more obedient to your ways...to know you intimately through your Word and live a life that is responding to your greatness.~In Your Heavenly Name

Please continue to pray for Sam Y this week.