Apples of Gold part two!












Words, letters placed one after another, forming the means to communicate, to share feelings, and emotions. Words come slowly at first when we are on the front end of our lives.

Parents are in awe when a barely clear…Dada, or Mama….first passes over vocal chords and out of tiny mouths! Words soon are strung together and we make fledgling attempts at sentences, and paragraphs. My middle son Ben, when he was little would say things like “ I hungy, I thirsty,” and when returning from a day out exploring… "Home Now”.

When he was a small boy he was constantly misplacing His shoes, (Often when we were in a hurry to go somewhere) when I asked him why he always seemed to lose his shoes…he replied “ I don’t know, I take them off and they hide”!

The expressive and often humorous utterances of childhood, give way to teenage years, and young adult years…and we learn that words while having limitless potential for good, also can hurt, and while we have often heard, that "sticks and stones may break, my bones but words will never hurt me” we know that simply isn't true!

There is simply no one in the Old Testament (In my Opinion) who had more to say about life, and being wise in life's choices and the words we use to convey our intent, than Solomon.

A devotional writer summed up Solomons life this way:

When Solomon became king, God asked him what his heart desired above everything else. Solomon asked that he be granted wisdom.

Because he asked for this instead of riches or fame, God gave him all three. He made good use of the wisdom God gave him. He not only governed himself and his kingdom with it, but he gave rules of wisdom to others also.

Sadly, at the end of his life Solomon did not obey the wisdom in his own writings and turned aside from the ways of God—a warning to all of us that it isn’t enough to “have” the wisdom, we must also keep practicing it in our daily life.

Today I am thinking of one of Solomon's most discriptive proverbs regarding speech:

A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in a setting of silver. (Proverbs 25:11).

In this verse we see the...

1. The Potential of affirming words.

2. The Picture of affirming words.

Before we say anything, we should make our words pass through three Golden Gates:

Is it true?

Is it nessecery?

Is it kind?


Someone well said the tongue is such a deadly weapon, God put it behind a double guard...the lips, and the teeth!

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