{"id":9865,"date":"2011-11-18T09:34:02","date_gmt":"2011-11-18T15:34:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/?p=9865"},"modified":"2011-11-18T09:34:19","modified_gmt":"2011-11-18T15:34:19","slug":"listen-before-responding-proverbs-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/listen-before-responding-proverbs-18\/","title":{"rendered":"Listen before responding. Proverbs 18"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/2011\/10\/29\/the-proverbs-in-31-days-begins-tuesday\/proverbs-post\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-9645\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9645\" title=\"Proverbs in 31 Days with MomsToolbox\" src=\"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/proverbs-post.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"231\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/proverbs-post.jpg 400w, http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/proverbs-post-300x173.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/proverbs-post-200x115.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you are reading the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/2011\/11\/01\/are-you-reading-the-proverbs-in-31-days-with-momstoolbox\/\" target=\"_blank\">Proverbs in 31 Days<\/a> with us, our reading for today is Proverbs 18.<\/p>\n<h2>Scripture: Proverbs 18:13<\/h2>\n<blockquote><p>He who answers before listening&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>that is his folly and his shame<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h2>Observation:<\/h2>\n<p>Listen (to the whole story) before responding.<\/p>\n<h2>Application:<\/h2>\n<p>I see two applications here:<\/p>\n<p><strong>One: <\/strong>It is important to not jump in and respond to someone, but pause and really give the other person a chance to finish their thoughts before sharing my own. I can be terrible about wanting to jump in and share my own side or thoughts before the other person is really finished talking. This isn\u2019t polite if I agree or disagree. I should always wait, listen, think and then respond.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Two:<\/strong> Before responding to situations, I should pause and listen to God. Go to Him. Ask Him. And then listen.<\/p>\n<h2>Prayer:<\/h2>\n<p>Lord, thank you for meeting me when I invite conversation with you.. and thank you for meeting me even when I forget sometimes.<\/p>\n<p>Please help me to stop cutting others off in conversation and help me instead to be a much better listener. Help me, also, to be a better listener to you, as well.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you so much for sharing your wisdom, Lord. Please guide me in applying it and really living it.<\/p>\n<h2>What about you?<\/h2>\n<p>What struck you in our reading today?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you are reading the Proverbs in 31 Days with us, our reading for today is Proverbs 18. Scripture: Proverbs 18:13 He who answers before listening&#8211; that is his folly and his shame Observation: Listen (to the whole story) before responding. Application: I see two applications here: One: It is important to not jump in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9644,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[370],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blogging-proverbs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9865"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9865\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9868,"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9865\/revisions\/9868"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}