"Reprove not a scorner, lest he hate thee: rebuke a wise man, and he will love thee.
Give instruction to a wise man, and he will be yet wiser: teach a just man, and he will increase in learning."
Proverbs 9:8-9
This is an interesting idea, that it is pointless to correct someone who won't listen and will just get angry, but if you take the time to instruct the wise, then they will learn. I'm guessing a lot of it is in the way that it is presented as well, but the idea that it is up to us whether to actually learn something from our interactions seems like the key here.
I definitely don't think that this means we should go tell everyone what they are doing wrong. As it says, we'll drum up a lot of anger... and also, it is usually wise to look at ourselves before we try to correct anyone else, to make sure we aren't like the men in the story about the woman taken in adultery, having to walk away because they were also guilty.
Today, let's focus on learning from the things that we get wrong, rather than getting angry. Let's think more than we talk and clean up our own lives before we try to help others clean up theirs. :)
Give instruction to a wise man, and he will be yet wiser: teach a just man, and he will increase in learning."
Proverbs 9:8-9
This is an interesting idea, that it is pointless to correct someone who won't listen and will just get angry, but if you take the time to instruct the wise, then they will learn. I'm guessing a lot of it is in the way that it is presented as well, but the idea that it is up to us whether to actually learn something from our interactions seems like the key here.
I definitely don't think that this means we should go tell everyone what they are doing wrong. As it says, we'll drum up a lot of anger... and also, it is usually wise to look at ourselves before we try to correct anyone else, to make sure we aren't like the men in the story about the woman taken in adultery, having to walk away because they were also guilty.
Today, let's focus on learning from the things that we get wrong, rather than getting angry. Let's think more than we talk and clean up our own lives before we try to help others clean up theirs. :)
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