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Wisdom-Trek / Creating a Legacy
Welcome to Day 318 of our Wisdom-Trek, and thank you for joining me.
This is Guthrie Chamberlain, Your Guide to Wisdom
Hiding Hatred - Proverbs 10:18-22
Thank you for joining us for our 7 days a week, 7 minutes of wisdom podcast.
This is Day 318 of our trek. Yesterday and for the next few days, we are going
to remain in camp around the campfire as we continue digging for the nuggets of
wisdom that are found in the book of Proverbs. So far we have explored the first
17 verses of Chapter 10, and we will continue to cover a few verses each
day. This section of Proverbs compares and contrasts bite size nuggets of wisdom
that apply to everyday life. I know that you will enjoy it as we learn
together.



Thank you so much for coming along with me each day as we explore and consume
these “nuggets of wisdom.” These bits of wisdom help us to live a rich and
satisfying life while creating a living legacy. While some of our daily treks
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We are broadcasting this podcast from our studio at Home2 in Charlotte, North
Carolina. The week of work and activities is fairly brisk as we work with our
various clients and the projects we are involved with. For one of our major
clients, we provide on-demand remote software support, and we never know how
much time that will consume in a day. So we have to be flexible and shift
between the other projects. I have to admit there are some days that it makes it
difficult to switch focus between them all and still be as productive as I would
like.

Today we will remain in camp again and as we talk with each other about life, it
is important to keep in mind that our words have a huge impact on others, even
when we don’t realize it. I certainly have fallen prey to this many times. This
is why we should make sure to choose our words wisely and sparingly. Few people
have gotten into trouble by speaking too little, but we certainly understand how
easy it is to say the wrong thing when we speak too much. Many of the wisdom
nuggets that we will dig for today have to do with our words.

We start with the subject of...
Hiding Hatred - Proverbs 10:18-22
18Hiding hatred makes you a liar;
slandering others makes you a fool.
You might ask, how does hiding hatred make you a liar? I think we all know
people that are nice to our face, but we know that they really dislike us. We
may do the same thing to others. So, how do we make sure that we do not continue
this habit ourselves? Frist, we should forgive other people. Even when someone
hurts us, we should not hate that person. Instead, we should pray for them.

If we truly do dislike or hate a person, but are nice to them to their face,
then we are a liar. When we hate another person, we are really destroying and
enslaving ourselves. We are controlled and trapped by our internal hatred. We
need to learn to let it go and to forgive, even if they don’t ask for it or
deserve it. To forgive is to set ourselves free. Christ certainly forgave us
even though we do not deserve it.

Closely related to this is when we slander others. Slandering others really does
make us a fool. Anyone who hears your slander will realize that they are
probably the target of it when they are not around. We need to stop gossiping
and talking ill about others. We should encourage and build them up.





 
19Too much talk leads to sin.
Be sensible and keep your mouth shut.
This verse really describes most of us well. We all love to hear ourselves talk
and expound on our wisdom. We give advice, when none is asked for.