Be Still And Know

Proverbs 27:14 'A loud and cheerful greeting early in the morning will be taken as a curse!' This might sound a bit harsh but, if you’ve ever lived with someone who is irrepressibly loud and cheerful, you probably know what this verse is getting at. In life, it’s not so much what you say as how, when, where and why you say it. Basically, the writer is talking about people who are insensitive and, let’s be honest, we all know people like that. Let’s be a little more honest and admit that we’re also guilty of insensitivity too! In the previous chapter, the writer referred to someone who was completely insensitive and totally misread the situation. He saw them as serious liability. He wrote: “Just as damaging as a madman shooting a deadly weapon is someone who lies to a friend and then says: ‘I was only joking’” (Proverbs 26:18-19). Everything is wrong about this. He shouldn’t have been lying in the first place, and to try to pass it off as a joke just pours fuel on the fire. We all have something to learn f