Ecclesiastes 5 (random) Keep thy foot when thou goest to the house of God, and be more ready to hear, than to give the sacrifice of fools: for they consider not that they do evil. Be not rash with thy mouth, and let not thine heart be hasty to utter any thing before God: for God is in heaven, and thou upon earth: therefore let thy words be few. For a dream cometh through the multitude of business; and a fool’s voice is known by multitude of words.

To heed the last line, do I really need to add more? Can we not allow the Word to stand on its own and do a work it is meant to do?

So much of what I share here is a testimony of what God has done in my life. Being that I am human and the human condition is a common affliction I would hope that my examples might help others. They are my advice. But I am not every man, nor have I been afflicted with every ill. Many perhaps, but not all.

So I will end this here and ask you my readers to ignore what I have to say and read the opening verse for yourselves. Allow the Holy Spirit to speak to you in particular, privately, alone, without undo bias or opinion coming from me.

Be mindful of the Lord, not me.

Proverbs 19:10a Delight is not seemly for a fool;

Have you ever felt that God was asking you to say something but your skin was itching on the inside with insecurity? I really do not have a better description for this sensation. When I felt it today I only recognized it because I’d felt it before, years ago. I did not know what it was at the time. I only learned what it was by the experience of mistakes.

God does not create obedience of faith by delight in the flesh. The flesh will take delight in doing what the flesh likes to do. When the Spirit gives you urge to obey, more often than not, the flesh will get the creepy crawlies. I now that sounds silly. I wish I had a better way of describing it to you. Perhaps that feeling you might have had when picking up a lively worm. Maybe it was having to clean up something disgusting. The flesh reacts to the urgings of the Spirit like that some times.

The only way to know for sure if it is at the urging of the Holy Spirit or not is in obedience. If it is of God, then you will find peace in obedience. If not, you will find delight.

What if you step out in faith and you are wrong, and find delight where you should have found peace? Then you will have learned a lesson upon which you can build upon. It is better to make a slight mistake and learn from it, then to do nothing and learn nothing.

Learn from your mistakes as Eli learned from his mistake with Hannah. ( 1 Samuel 1)

He did not allow his mistake to keep him from listening and speaking for the Lord on her behalf.