<p><span class="fs-17 fg-mustard bold">For Reading and Meditation:</span><br><span class="italic">     <span class="scriptRef" ref="pr+10:9-17">Proverbs 10:9-17</span></span></p><p>We look now at the fifth pillar of wisdom - watchfulness with words. Anyone who does not understand the importance of words and the impact they can produce for good or bad is not a wise person. The book of Proverbs has a good deal to say about the power of words: this is without doubt one of its major themes. Today's text implies that there is a transfer of wisdom from one person to another when wise words are used but that unwise words have the opposite effect. Emotional scars can be left by bitter words. How many adults still struggle from bitter words spoken to them when they were children - words like: "I wish you had never been born!"? Many a man and woman have told me that a statement like "I'm sorry I ever married you" carries as much force as a physical blow. Words have the potential for destroying or building up, hurting or healing, blessing or blistering, bringing comfort or consternation. Many oriental religions believe that ultimate reality is silence. Lao-tse, the famous Chinese philosopher, said: "The word that can be uttered is not the divine word; that word is Silence." I believe that ultimate reality is relationship - relationship with a God who speaks. God broke the silence of eternity with the words: "Let there be light." Lao-tse had to say that ultimate reality was silence for he knew nothing of a God who speaks. With words God created a world. We do the same. Our words create a world of order or disorder, of cosmos or chaos. Be wise - watch your words.</p><p class="center-it italic bold mlr40 mtb20">Father, I see that when You spoke, You created a world and that when I speak, I do the same. Give me the wisdom to use words in a way that will build up and not pull down; construct, not destruct. This I ask in Jesus' Name. Amen.</p><div class="tl-lightgrey mt20 pt20 flexbox-row-wrap jc-around"><div><div class="fs-17 fg-mustard bold center-it">AdditionalVerses</div><ul style="margin-top:0px"><li><span class="scriptRef" ref="col+4:1-6">Colossians 4:1-6</span></li><li><span class="scriptRef" ref="ec+10:12">Ecclesiastes 10:12</span></li><li><span class="scriptRef" ref="tit+2:8">Titus 2:8</span></li></ul></div>

<div><div class="fs-17 fg-mustard bold center-it">Questions to Consider</div><ul style="margin-top:0px"><li>What is our conversation to be full of?</li><li>What was Paul's admonition to Titus?</li></ul></div></div>

Let a little light into your soul every day with this wonderful devotional from English pastor Selwyn Hughes.

Every Day Light with Selwyn Hughes

"The mouth of the righteous is a fountain of life, but violence overwhelms the mouth of the wicked." (v. 11)

<p>A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another; as I have loved you, that you also love one another. § Above all things have fervent love for one another, for “love will cover a multitude of sins.” § Love covers all sins.<br><br>Whenever you stand praying, if you have anything against anyone, forgive him, that your Father in heaven may also forgive you your trespasses. § Love your enemies, do good, and lend, hoping for nothing in return. § Do not rejoice when your enemy falls, and do not let your heart be glad when he stumbles. § Not returning evil for evil or reviling for reviling, but on the contrary blessing, knowing that you were called to this, that you may inherit a blessing. § If it is possible, as much as depends on you, live peaceably with all men. § Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God in Christ forgave you.<br><br>My little children, let us not love in word or in tongue, but in deed and in truth.</p>

Daily Light on the Daily Path or Daily Light is a Christian daily devotional scripture reading published by Bagster & Sons about 1875. It has been reprinted continually since then. It consists of brief groupings of scripture passages which speak to prominent Biblical themes—two themes (morning and evening) for each day of the year. It appends no commentary, but simply allows scripture to speak for itself.

Morning Daily Light

 Walk in love. 

<p> <sup class="verse-number">12</sup> Hatred stirreth up strifes: but love covereth all sins.</p>

Hatred stirreth up strifes: but love covereth all sins.

Proverbs 10:12

 Hatred stirreth up strifes: but love covereth all sins.

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Proverbs 10:12 KJV

Proverbs 10:12 KJV

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