I have a question for you. When you see a post on social media, do you automatically assume that it's true?

Or here's another question. Do you make decisions based on your emotions rather than taking the time to pray?

Or how about this one? Have you ever had a caution in your soul about whether or not to do something, but you ignored it and ended up

getting hurt by your own choice? What do these questions have in common? All of them are related

to a lack of prudence. A lack of prudence can turn life into one mess after another.

Thank you for joining Keep the Heart for today's podcast with Francie Taylor.

Francie is an author, teacher, and conference speaker.

Sharing lessons from the Word of God is her passion. Now, back to today's

important study. Included in the definitions of Prudent, you'll find this gem of a statement,

cautious not to act when the end is of doubtful utility. In other words, a prudent

person isn't going to do something without considering the possible outcome of the actions.

Prudence really enriches a person's life. The lack of prudence really hurts a life.

The wisdom of being a prudent person leads to less worry,

a lot less drama, and less cleanup on the self-made messes. Let's walk through four verses about

the prudent person. We'll see some identifying marks that can help us to make some life improvements.

First, the prudent person controls their temper. There's a tremendous lack of temperance in our culture today. Meltdowns are so

public now, you can't even go to the restroom without having to listen to somebody arguing, and

they're not even arguing in person. They're shouting

into a cell phone while sitting in a bathroom stall. Watching the reactions of others is worthy

of popcorn, I'll tell you. Have you ever caught a stranger's eye and they give you the big

eyeballs like, can you believe this? It's easy to understand why the unbelieving culture has problems

controlling themselves. Christians are another matter. Why would we be mad and loud when Jesus was

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