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Ecclesiasties chapter 10 verse 1.

Dead flies make the perfumers' ointment give off a stench,

so a little folly outweighs wisdom and honor.

That's a potent picture.

Ecclesiasties 10- one talking about dead flies making a

perfumer's ointment smell horrible.

Like who wants to put on perfume that's been infested with dead flies?

Who wants to put on their bodies a stench of dead flies. Nobody wants that. Like just picture the nicest, most

expensive, extravagant, beautiful smelling perfume and then put a couple of dead flies in it and

give it a little time and it's totally ruined.

And that's the picture God gives us of a little bit of folly.

Just a little folly.

Ecclesiasties 10 one1 says, outweighs wisdom and honor.

Wow, what a picture.

Doesn't this make you want to avoid any folly no matter how little it might be, any foolishness, to avoid any

foolish thought, foolish desire,

any foolish or flippant word we might say or thing we might do.

Like this verse just leads me to want to pray. Well let's pray according to it. God guard our thoughts and our desires and our words and our actions to avoid all folly we pray.

God help us to avoid all folly in our lives today, all foolishness, help us to speak only that which is wise,

to think in ways only that are wise, to desire things that are wise and good and God help us to live

wisely today. Guard us, keep us in every way from folly and God we pray this for the people around us for friends

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