Stop Casting Your Pearls Before Swine
“Speak not in the ears of a fool: for he will despise the wisdom of thy words.” (Proverbs 23:9)
Today’s Morsel: Some folks just hate it when others know more than they do, or that you have accomplished more than they have. There are those that always seem to have to get an up on you. If you say that you climbed a mountain, they have climbed a taller mountain. If you say that you have been to China, they have been to the ends of the world. Solomon said, don’t speak in the ears of a fool, for they will despise the wisdom of thy words. He is saying stop wasting your time on trying to explain stuff to folks. Especially if they don’t have a heart to listen to what you are saying so that they may gain wisdom, knowledge, instruction, and understanding. He’s not listening to you, Solomon said. He is going to reject what you are saying and treat you with scorn. Jesus said, “Give not that which is holy unto the dogs, neither cast ye your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn again and rend you.” (Matthew 7:6) Somewhere you must stop wasting your time on stupidity or you will soon start acting like them. Paul informed Titus: “A man that is an heretick after the first and second admonition reject; Knowing that he that is such is subverted, and sinneth, being condemned of himself.” (Titus 3:10-11) You must not keep casting your pearls before swine. A hog is always going to go back into the mud no matter how clean you try to make him.
Sing: Farther along we’ll know all about it. Farther along we’ll understand why; Cheer up my brother, live in the sunshine. We’ll understand it, all by and by.
Thought For Today: “But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.” (James 3:17)
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