Hey everyone, I'm Dr. Allison. Today's scripture offers us a wiser way of being human as we step into the day.

Have you ever had a moment where someone said something sharp, unfair, or provocative, and you could feel the reaction rising in you almost instantly?

That surge of energy that tells

you need to defend yourself, correct them, or set the record straight. Those moments happen to all

of us. They happen in our conversations with family members, in workplaces, and friendships,

sometimes even in the comments section of social media. But the wisdom literature of scripture

often invites us to pause in those

moments to step back long enough to choose a response instead of being pulled into a reaction.

Today's scripture is Proverbs 1911. A person's wisdom yields patience. It is to one's glory to overlook an offense.

I also love the way the message translation captures this verse. It puts it this way. Smart people

know how to hold their tongue. Their grandeur is to forgive and to also forget.

That word grandeur is striking. We usually associate grandeur with power, status, or being

impressive in some visible way, but this proverb suggests something different. There's a quiet

greatness in the person who doesn't react to every

offense or the person who has the inner steadiness to pause, to hold their tongue, and sometimes

simply let something go. In a world that often rewards the sharp comeback or the angry last

word or the memeable troll, scripture offers a different picture

of strength. Real wisdom often looks like restraint, the strength to not take the bait.

Now, at first glance, the phrase overlook an offense might sound like the Bible is asking us to

ignore wrongdoing or spiritually bypass or pretend something didn't happen.

But that's not actually what this proverb is teaching. In the wisdom tradition of scripture,

overlooking an offense is not about suppressing truth. It's about learning when to not take

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