What's the Golden Word?
While reading the Proverb of the day before bed with my children, we stopped at Proverbs 25:11, and I had to share my ponderings with you all too in hopes that you will be provoked as I was... "A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of silver ." We are going to break down this descriptive phrase each adjective at a time, because each word means so much in this little sentence! Apples are a picture of comfort in the Bible as mentioned in Song of Solomon 2:5, Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples: for I am sick of love. Do your words bring comfort to the listener? When people need encouragement do they turn to you for help or run the other way when they see you coming for fear of another verbal assault? A timely word is likened to a golden apple in the Bible. Something that is golden is, as we well know, valuable and precious...something that is treasured. Are your words held dear to the ear of the listener? Are they pre...