{"id":1198,"date":"2009-09-18T08:08:56","date_gmt":"2009-09-18T14:08:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eaf.net\/pantinghart\/?p=1198"},"modified":"2009-09-18T08:08:56","modified_gmt":"2009-09-18T14:08:56","slug":"pride-and-sweetness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/2009\/pride-and-sweetness\/","title":{"rendered":"Pride and Sweetness"},"content":{"rendered":"
Reading:<\/p>\n

Proverbs 16<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n

I read this chapter two mornings ago…and only now am getting to this part!<\/p>\n

Two trains of thought impress(ed) me: pride and properly-seasoned speech.<\/p>\n

“Every one that is proud in heart is an abomination to the LORD: though hand join in hand, he shall not be unpunished”<\/span> (5).<\/p>\n

abomination<\/i> — hateful, despicable, utterly gross; to be rejected, opposed, and cast away.<\/p>\n

Everyone that is proud. No exceptions. Wow! \ud83d\ude2f<\/p>\n

Need more divine perspective on pride?<\/p>\n

“Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall”<\/span> (18).<\/p>\n

“Better it is to be of an humble spirit with the lowly, than to divide the spoil with the proud”<\/span> (19).<\/p>\n

Why would anyone want pride?!<\/p>\n

And why would anyone relish tasteless speech? Or worse yet, bad-tasting speech?<\/p>\n

“The wise in heart shall be called prudent: and the sweetness of the lips increaseth learning”<\/span> (21).<\/p>\n

“Pleasant words are as an honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones”<\/span> (24).<\/p>\n

Oh, to have that kind of speech!! With that kind of effect on others and on myself!<\/p>\n

Where, oh where, does it come from?! And is it available to me<\/i> (of all people)?<\/p>\n

“The preparations of the heart in man, and the answer of the tongue, is from the LORD”<\/span> (1).<\/p>\n

Oh, yes! Woo hoo! Thank you!<\/p>\n

\"[The<\/a><\/p>\n
from Proverbs 16:24<\/div>\n

<\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Reading: Proverbs 16 I read this chapter two mornings ago…and only now am getting to this part! Two trains of thought impress(ed) me: pride and properly-seasoned speech. “Every one that is proud in heart is an abomination to the LORD: though hand join in hand, he shall not be unpunished” (5). abomination — hateful, despicable, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[44,52,60],"class_list":{"0":"post-1198","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-proverbs","7":"tag-live-right","8":"tag-speech","9":"tag-warning","10":"h-entry","11":"hentry","12":"h-as-article"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/prJBV-jk","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1198\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}