HAVE YOU EVER...kept your mouth shut?

I cannot keep my mouth shut.  I always have something to say.  The harder I try to keep my mouth shut the more the good, the BAD, and the UGLY seems to come out.

I have been trying to read scriptures about this and memorize them.  In my search for relevant verses, I keep returning to Proverbs.

King Solomon is attributed for writing most of Proverbs.  When he was a young king in search of answers, he asked the Lord for wisdom.  God told him he could have whatever he wanted.  Solomon asked for wisdom!  Not wealth or health or love…but wisdom.

My father once told me that I was wise.  I was a young girl when he told me this and it has stuck with me.  I believe that if he saw me today, I don’t know if he would think I was as wise as I might have been in that moment in the past.

Even so, I am seeking God’s wisdom with my mouth.  I am going to share some Proverbs with you in which I am focusing.  Maybe they will save your tongue too.

He who guards his mouth and his tongue keeps himself from calamity.  Proverbs 21:23

He who answers before listening – that is his folly and his shame.  Proverbs 18:13

When words are many, sin is not absent, but who holds his tongue is wise.   

Proverbs 10:19

(There’s plenty more.  Proverbs 17:27-28; 18:6-8.  Feel free to pass any back to me that 

you like.)

HAVE YOU EVER been wise?

Ecclesiastes 5:2, Ephesians 4:29