Daily devotion – unwanted words
“Sticks and stones shall break my bone but names will never hurt me…”
Ecc 7:21
Also do not take to heart everything people say,
Lest you hear your servant cursing you.
Solomon recommends that we, “do not take to heart everything people say”…
Proud people are alert to what others say about them and quick to react and retaliate. This keeps the anger burning, the fires still flaming, and all this robs everybody of peace and joy.
The great preacher, Charles Spurgeon counsels us, “ You cannot stop people’s tongues, and therefore the best thing to do is to stop your own ears and never mind what is spoke.”
Lastly, if something is weighing heavy on your heart that someone has said about you, Jesus tells us to pray for those that spitefully use us, and the Apostle Peter tells us to take those painful things and cast them before the Lord. Leave them in God’s healing hands!
And before the Lord is a great place to be when we are under attack.