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Ecclesiastes 10 verse 1, dead flies make the perfumers'

ointment give off a stench. So a little folly outweighs wisdom and honor.

What imagery and what truth packed into this little verse? Let me read it again.

He kind of catches you off guard from the very beginning, but listen to it.

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

The picture is something small, little, but rank can ruin something beautiful.

perfumers' ointment starts giving off a stench when there's dead flies on it.

So a little folly outweighs wisdom and honor.

Oh, a little folly on wisdom and honor is like dead flies on perfumers' ointment.

Doesn't this make you want nothing to do with folly and in a sense make you afraid of

even a little folly to realize that a little folly can outweigh wisdom and honor.

Like I read this and I think God keep me from all folly.

Even a little folly, even a little moment here or there where I think or say something or

do something that is foolish. I want to avoid foolishness with everything in me as I read

this verse. Don't you? Doesn't this lead us then to pray that God would guard us from folly?

Let's do that as we think about our days. Oh, God, we want to walk in a live in wisdom and honor

in every facet of our lives. When we are alone, when we are with others, God in our lives,

our families, our work in the world around us, we want to live with wisdom and honor for all those

of us who've entrusted with leadership responsibilities, whether it's leadership as a parent or

as a friend or in work in school, whatever it might be. God, we want to lead with wisdom and honor.

Please keep us from all folly. God, I pray. God, we pray that you would keep us from little folly.

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