Wisdom Brings Restraint
“Restraint” is everyone’s favorite concept, but it is a quality of the wise. Even outside of relationship with God, a wise person learns self restraint. To be sure, a person doesn’t even need to be all that wise to understand that unrestrained speech can quickly get you into trouble, and that unrestrained action can easily land a person in the penitentiary. A person who is wise in the faith knows much more, for he or she is fully aware that our God is a model of self restraint. A wise person of faith will restrain his or her speech and actions simply out of love for God.
Wisdom makes one wise person more powerful
than ten rulers in a city.
Indeed, there is no one on earth who is righteous,
no one who does what is right and never sins.
Do not pay attention to every word people say
or you may hear your servant cursing you—
for you know in your heart
that many times you yourself have cursed others.
Ecclesiastes 7:19-22[more]
Source: Wisdom Brings Restraint | The Life Project
- The Life Project. 2016. Wisdom Brings Restraint | The Life Project. [ONLINE] Available at: https://lifereference.wordpress.com/2016/10/28/wisdom-brings-restraint-2/. [Accessed 29 October 2016].
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