Fruit

From the mouth of the righteous comes the fruit of wisdom, but a perverse tongue will be silenced.

I don’t know about you, but it seems to me that the perverse tongue is louder than any other in the world right now – in the movies, in our schools, and on the streets.  But maybe that’s because there’s not much fruit of wisdom coming out of the mouths of the righteous.

I recently read that the view of Christians by many is that we’re judgmental, accusatory, full of condemnation and even hatred.  There’s not much wisdom in presenting that picture to others. 

I hope and pray that the mouths of the righteous start dripping with the fruit of wisdom, which includes love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, meekness, goodness, temperance, and faith.  When these things are evident in our speech, the other tongues will be silenced because they will want to listen…

And receive.