The Law of Kindness

Keep the Heart

Francie Taylor

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality:christianity, Religion & Spirituality

2.4 • 616 Ratings

🗓️ 31 October 2024

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

When someone says or does something that irritates you, what comes out of your mouth? Unfiltered speech that stings, or carefully chosen words spoken according to the "law of kindness"? We are at great risk of picking up the infections of the culture, including the tendency to open the mouth with unedited harshness. If your companions, electronic or "in real life" are mouthy and careless, you will be influenced by them. But if your role models are biblically sound, that beautiful soundness will become an admirable pattern for you. The best companions are God-fearing ones, as it says in Psalm 119:63: "I am a companion of all them that fear thee, and of them that keep thy precepts." This episode is an excerpt from Apply: Living What We Learn. Day 31 examines "the law of kindness." People who have learned how to apply this kindness to the way they communicate are precious, encouraging, and rare. "She openeth her mouth with wisdom; and in her tongue is the law of kindness." (Proverbs 31:26) Get your copy of Apply here: Apply: Living What We Learn--A 31-Day Devotional by Francie Taylor

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0:00.0	If you've been studying the Bible for any length of time, you've heard about the Proverbs 31 woman.
0:06.6	But you know, this woman has caused mixed emotions in Christian womanhood.
0:11.4	Some see her as a role model, while others see her as some kind of unattainable poster child.
0:18.3	Before we say, I simply cannot be her, maybe we should take a look at how this
0:23.8	really works. Welcome to Keep the Heart podcast with Francie Taylor. Francy is an author,
0:35.4	teacher, and conference speaker known for sharing biblical insights that are practical and inspiring.
0:42.7	Now back to today's valuable study.
0:49.6	If you don't have a copy of the book Apply, Living What We Learn, a 31 Day devotional,
0:55.9	you'll really want to get your hands on one from keeptheheart.com.
0:59.5	We get the most interesting emails and even Instagram messages and people pop this book
1:06.0	into their stories, showing the things that they're highlighting and what they're picking up on.
1:11.7	But what's most exciting about it is people are starting to apply biblical principles to their daily living,
1:17.1	such as this very important principle of kindness. Day 31 in the book Apply is kindness taken from
1:24.7	Proverbs 31. Oh, that Proverbs 31 woman, sometimes we actually get to a point
1:31.4	where people start to make fun of someone who's taught about so often because we start feeling like,
1:36.9	okay, all right, all right, already. I've heard enough about the famous Proverbs 31 woman.
1:42.8	But let's back up a second and look at Proverbs 31 verse 26 that tells us
1:47.5	something about her. She openeth her mouth with wisdom and in her tongue is the law of kindness.
1:55.9	Did you catch that? She opens her mouth with wisdom. This means that wisdom was already present in her soul
2:03.7	to come from her mouth. This was a woman who was spiritually sound. She couldn't achieve that without God.
2:11.1	So this isn't even about the woman. It's about God. A healthy soul is a fountain of wisdom mingled with gracious kindness, and we're talking about
2:21.1	a spiritually healthy soul. If our hearts are spiritually unsound or malnourished from starvation from the
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