Proverbs 28:22 is another way of saying that when God blesses us with things we can use to give to people, we should do it. And it doesn't matter what it is, nothing is too small or too big to help someone. You've heard the phrase, someone's trash is someone else's treasure, right? Well, there you go. There is someone who can benefit from someone. We just have to have a willing heart, is all.  

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Proverbs 27:17 says, "iron sharpens iron, and one man sharpens another." What that means is that the people who are around us are the people who make us better and vice versa. Or at least it should be that way. 

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"Like a dog that returns to his vomit, is a fool who repeats his folly. Do you see a man who is wise in his own eyes? There is more hope for a fool than for him." Those verses come from Proverbs 26:11/12. Don't go back. Don't go backwards. In fact, don't even look back. Don't repeat folly, absurdity, or recklessness. And I'm not just talking to you. I'm talking to myself. 

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Proverbs 25:28 says, "a man without self-control is like a city broken into and left without walls." That's a tough one right there and you know what it means, right? Exactly. It means we have to extend respect and courtesy to those who we might not think have been the best to us -- have been the nicest to us. Let me just put it that way. We have to do that and we have to maintain self-control. And let me just say this: that is easier said than done.

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"For by wise guidance you can wage your war, and in abundance of counselors there is victory" (Proverbs 24:6).  We should have relationships where we strengthen each other. Those things are important. 

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A good question we can ask ourselves is, what type of heart do we have, because according to Proverbs 21:2, God looks at the heart, He weighs what's in our heart. What do you think about that? What lives in your heart? 

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I say stay away from it, from strife, animosity, bickering, and arguments.  None of it will do us any good. How does  any of it help anybody? Relationships are not strengthened by it, so why bother, right? So, let's be wise, not foolish. "It is an honor for a man to keep aloof from strife, but every fool will be quarreling" (Proverbs 20:3).  

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Proverbs 19:1 says, "better is a poor person who walks in his integrity, than one who is crooked in speech, and is a fool." How important is walking in integrity to you? How important is others walking in integrity? According to the dictionary, other words for integrity are: character, decency, goodness, honesty, morality, righteousness, uprightness, and virtue. Sounds like the fruits of the spirit huh (Galatians 5:22/23)?

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"The one who has knowledge uses words with restraint, and whoever has understanding is even-tempered. Even fools are thought wise if they keep silent, and discerning if they hold their tongues." That's Proverbs 17:27/28.  If you go back a few devotionals/podcasts, you will remember me saying that a few years ago my mouth got me in trouble when I didn't know when to shut it. Back then I used to talk just to talk instead of talking if and when I had something to say. 

When we speak, people should stop in their tracks and wait to hear what we have to say. Wouldn't it be nice to operate like that? Why can't we? We can in fact if we will just study to show ourselves approved (2 Timothy 2:15) and speak when spoken to. I had to learn that through the school of hard-knocks and guess what? I'm still learning.  

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What are you building? Is it being built on a solid foundation? Is it prospering? It is leveling up? Does it have a future? Or it is going in the other direction? Proverbs 14:1 says, "the wise woman builds her house, but with her own hands the foolish one tears hers down." 

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