SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 6/3/2013
7:48 AM
My Worship Time Focus: Foolish
Talkers PT-2
Bible Reading & Meditation Reference: Eccl.
10:13-15
Message of
the verses: ““Having laid down the principle, Solomon
then applied it to four different ‘fools.’”
Today we are looking at the third type of foolish person.
Next we will look at the unreasonableness of these
foolish talkers which is described in verse thirteen: “13
the beginning of his talking is folly and the end of it is wicked
madness.” (NASB) “13
Fools base their thoughts on foolish assumptions, so their conclusions will be wicked madness.” NLT)
Fools keep talking about things that they don’t know
anything about, and when you listen to them it does not take long for you to
understand that they are using foolish words.
Dr. Wiersbe quotes a Jewish writer, Shalom Aleichem who said “You can
tell when a fool speaks: he grinds much
and produces little.”
Next, in verse fourteen we will look at how the foolish
talker’s uses uncontrolled words: “14
Yet the fool multiplies words. No man knows what will happen, and who can tell
him what will come after him?” “14 They
chatter on and on. No one really knows what is going to happen; no one can
predict the future.” (NLT)
Proverbs 10:19 helps to sum these verses up: “When there are many words, transgression is
unavoidable, But he who restrains his lips is wise.” (NASB)
“Too much talk leads to sin. Be
sensible and keep your mouth shut.”
(NLT) I can’t help but think of
what Peter and Jude talk about in their writings about false teachers when they
describe them as clouds without rain.
James also talks about people who cannot control their tongue in James
3:1-2, verses that we have already looked at in yesterday’s SD. In Matthew 5:37 which is part of the Sermon
on the Mount Jesus said “let your yes be yes and your no be no.
Finally we will look at the boastful words that these
foolish talker use from verses 14b-15: “and
who can tell him what will come after him? 15 The toil of a fool so wearies him
that he does not even know how to go to a city.
(NASB) ” no one can predict the future. 15 Fools are so exhausted by a
little work that they can’t even find their way home.” (NLT)
Foolish people talk about the future as if they know
exactly what will happen, but Solomon wrote earlier in Proverbs 27:1 these
words, “Do not boast about tomorrow, For you do not know what a day may bring
forth.” James also wrote about this
subject in James 4:13-17, “13 Come now, you who say, "Today or tomorrow we
will go to such and such a city, and spend a year there and engage in business
and make a profit." 14 Yet you do not know what your life will be like
tomorrow. You are just a vapor that appears for a little while and then
vanishes away. 15 Instead, you ought to say, "If the Lord wills, we will
live and also do this or that." 16 But as it is, you boast in your
arrogance; all such boasting is evil. 17 Therefore, to one who knows the right
thing to do and does not do it, to him it is sin.”
Dr. Wiersbe concludes this section with the following
words: “There is a bit of humor
here. The fool boasts about his future
plans and wearies people with his talk, but he can’t even find the way to the
city. In Bible times, the roads to the
cities were well-marked so that any traveler could find his way, but the fool
is so busy talking about the future that he loses his way in the present. ‘He can’t find his way to the city’ was probably
an ancient proverb about stupidity, not unlike our ‘He’s so dumb, he couldn’t
learn the route to run an elevator.’”
Spiritual meaning
for my life today: I suppose that
people who know me may say that I do, at times talk too much, and this is one
of the things that the Lord seems to be working on me to stop and so Proverbs 10:19
is a convicting verse for me: “When
there are many words, transgression is unavoidable, But he who restrains his
lips is wise.”
My Steps of Faith for Today: Trust the
Lord to help me guard my speech.
Memory verses for the
week: 2 Cor. 5:17-21
17 Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new
creature; the old things passed away; behold, new things have come. 18 Now all these things are from God, who
reconciled us to Himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation,
19 namely, that God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself, not
counting their trespasses against them, and He committed to us the word of
reconciliation. 20 Therefore, we are
ambassadors for Christ, as though God we making an appeal through us; we beg
you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God.
21 He made Him who knew no sin to be sin on our behalf, so that we might
become the righteousness of God in Him.
Answer to yesterday’s Bible
Question: “Elijah” (2 Kings 1:9-15).
Today’s Bible
question: “Who was the first person in
the Bible to pay tithes and to whom did he pay them?”
Answer in tomorrow’s SD.
6/3/2013 8:57 AM
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