KUW Insights Podcast
I love insights that are based on the knowledge, understanding and wisdom sourced from the Word of God.These three parameters are what insights are all about as the Lord advocates that by wisdom a house is built; and through understanding it is established; through knowledge its rooms are filled with rare and beautiful treasures.We need to create time in our busy schedule to slow down and ponder over the finer things of life. Our thinking should be facilitated by the Holy Spirit who will cause our thought patterns to align with that of the Almighty God
KUW Insights Podcast
Silence is Wisdom
Welcome to the KUW Insight Podcast. Today’s insight is titled Silence is Wisdom written by Ade Ojomo and read by Morenike Olubode:
1. Is keeping silent a struggle?
2. Why do people struggle to stay silent?
3. How can we improve this area of our lives?
Welcome to the KUW Insight Podcast. Today’s insight is titled Silence is Wisdom written by Ade Ojomo and read by Morenike Olubode:
1. Is keeping silent a struggle?
2. Why do people struggle to stay silent?
3. How can we improve this area of our lives?
I once conducted an experiment where I requested the participants to keep quiet for 15 mins. What a struggle this was them, apparent from the levels of fidgeting, unease and discomfort from the exercise.
Could it be the discomfort with silence and solitude that causes us to speak words that we later regret. Regrets because we don’t steps to consider and ponder over the potential impact of what we are about to say.
There is a saying that words are like eggs, once broken – they can’t be put back together – hence why we should speak words that build and not destroy.
We see a situation that warns us of the implication of words in Matthew 26 v 69 – 75:
69 Now Peter was sitting outside in the courtyard. A servant-girl came to him and said, “You also were with Jesus the Galilean.” 70 But he denied it before all of them, saying, “I do not know what you are talking about.” 71 When he went out to the porch, another servant-girl saw him, and she said to the bystanders, “This man was with Jesus of Nazareth.”[h] 72 Again he denied it with an oath, “I do not know the man.” 73 After a little while the bystanders came up and said to Peter, “Certainly you are also one of them, for your accent betrays you.” 74 Then he began to curse, and he swore an oath, “I do not know the man!” At that moment the cock crowed. 75 Then Peter remembered what Jesus had said: “Before the cock crows, you will deny me three times.” And he went out and wept bitterly.
The case study above gives us some lessons to adopt:
1. We should learn to listen more than we speak
2. In our silence is wisdom as advised by Job to the three friends that came to comfort him in his sorrow.
3. There is a time to speak and a time to be silent as advised by King Solomon
Goodbye and until the next KUW Insight,
Shalom – Love Never Fails