Worth Something

DEVOTION
PROVERBS
WORTH SOMETHING
Prov 10:20
20 The tongue of the righteous is choice silver,
but the heart of the wicked is of little value.
NIV
What is the difference between the righteous and the wicked? I know without question I am in and of myself not righteous, but I have accepted Jesus Christ he is my righteousness. The wicked are just people, many good people, who simply have not accepted Jesus and thus have no righteousness. What they have to offer me is absolutely nothing. Their ways have no value to me whatsoever. What they consider of value is meaningless. There words of wisdom is simply foolishness to God and thus also to me. As I learned from my study of the first psalm, I should never take any type of advice from them at all. I also should not be in any form of partnership with them as being unequally yoked is just simply wrong. Nothing the wicked have or believe is of any value to me at all. It is the Word of God which holds all the cards. The Word is the only thing which is of true value to me. As such whenever I speak about the Word of God, preaching teaching, or writing, my words have value to others. I think there is a lot of chitter chatter even among believers. Meaningless dibble about meaningless things may help pass the time, but for a believer it simply wastes the time and is of little to no value. Sure small talk might help to develop relationships, but about what? Why do I want to talk about some worldly sport team, or superstar, who lives a lascivious lifestyle? Why would I want to spend any time at all talking about some movie star, or television personality who has no clue about living for God, but lives completely for self and lives in total sin? Why do I have to discuss the weather or some other mundane topic I cannot do anything about? Even all the words I speak about politics are worthless, except of course that does affect people’s lives, and I should be a concerned citizen as a believer. Still there are so many junk words that can fill up my mind, when I need to be focused on words of value. I have a small amount of time on this earth and I need to make my words count. If I remain focused on words from God, then my words will be as choice silver. Now that is worth something.