DEVOTION
PROVERBS
RIGHT WORDS
Prov 15:23
23 A man
finds joy in giving an apt reply — and how good is a timely word!
NIV
In the
course of conversation a well-timed answer that strikes right is a very good thing,
yet it seems some spend so many words and saying absolutely nothing at all.
Idle chatter just to hear one speak seems to be at the point of this saying. It
might be good to be a person of few words but the few spoken are to the benefit
of those who are the hearers of such words and spoken at the right time.
Perhaps we of today have lost the fine art of public debate. It was quite
common in the day of this saying men would sit for hours, perhaps even days in
public debate. It was considered honorable to have discourse of disagreements.
Men remained friends throughout the debate, giving proper respect to those with
opposing views, yet still remained true to they own view, giving a good reply
in a timely fashion, able to communicate fully their thoughts without being
prideful in their ability to speech well. It may not be like that today. There are topics which are forbidden to comment
on depending on who we are with. Well perhaps topics we are better off not imitating
consider the views of our conversational guests. But we still should be ready
with a valid and timely response to any conversation in which we are engaged,
unless of course that conversation is nothing but gossip, and then perhaps our
apt reply should be in some form of rebuke, which would be a timely word. Nevertheless
it is a good thing to be able to speak the right words into a conversation. We
can always be assured the right words will always line up with the word of God.
A few right words are always better than many wrong ones.
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